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Experiments using the public goods game have repeatedly shown that in cooperative social environments, punishment makes cooperation flourish, and withholding punishment makes cooperation collapse. In less cooperative social environments, where antisocial punishment has been detected, punishment...
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In many important public good situations the decision-making power and authority is delegated to representatives who make binding decisions on behalf of a larger group. The purpose of this study is to compare contribution decisions made by individuals with contribution decisions made by group...
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This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a noncooperative model of household behavior …. In a first step, we show how gender-based taxes can act as Pigou taxes and correct the externality induced by a non …-raising purpose. In this case, the optimal structure of differential taxation by gender is partly determined by a Ramsey-type inverse …
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This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time … allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and …
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Ethical goods are increasingly available in markets for conventional goods giving proethically motivated consumers a convenient option to contribute to public goods. In a previous experiment we explored the behavioural relevance of impure public goods in a withinsubject setting and observed...
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In small groups norm enforcement is provided by mutual punishment and reward. In large societies we have enforcement institutions. This paper shows how such institutions can emerge as a decentralized equilibrium. In a first stage, individuals invest in a public enforcement technology. This...
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