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The Decentralization of Punishments in Experiments with Public Goods
Berná, Zuzana; Spalek, Jiri - 2013
This paper deals with the effects of introducing adequate punishment opportunities in experiments with public goods. Decentralized punishment means that the contributing subjects have a possibility to sanction free riders without the intervention of an external authority. The very first...
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Political economists are neither selfish nor indoctrinated
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001
greater selfishness is due to economics education. This paper offers empirical evidence against this widely held belief. Using … that economics education does not make people act more selfishly. Rather, this natural experiment suggests that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398894
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Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity : Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo - 2016
obtain this result using county-level data from late nineteenth-century Prussia. This environment allows us to exploit both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000827
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Experimentation in federal systems
Callander, Steven; Harstad, Bård - 2015
We develop a model of policy experimentation in federal systems in which heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. The prospect of informational spillovers implies that in the fi rst best the districts converge in their policy choice....
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Did tuition fees in Germany constrain students' budgets? : new evidence from a natural experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Haaren, Friederike von - 2014
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434567
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Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2014
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043694
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The role of information for public preferences on education - evidence from representative survey experiments
Werner, Katharina - 2019
The aim of this doctoral project is an empirical analysis of questions concerning economics of education, in particular … education policy. The first key aspect is the relationship between public opinion and the level of information of the population … on state spending for different areas of education. This research shows that providing respondents with the information …
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Did tuition fees in Germany constrain students' budgets? : new evidence from a natural experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Haaren-Giebel, Friederike von - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-25
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their …
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Volatility and resilience of democratic public-good provision
Gersbach, Hans; Pitsuwan, Fikri; Bolgè, Giovanni Valvassori - 2024
We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...
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Does the reliability of institutions affect public good contributions? : evidence from a laboratory experiment
Fochmann, Martin; Jahnke, Björn; Wagener, Andreas - 2016
Reliable institutions - i.e., institutions that live up to the norms that agents expect them to keep - foment cooperative behavior. We experimentally confirm this hypothesis in a public goods game with a salient norm that cooperation was socially demanded and corruption ought not to occur. When...
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