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Public Disclosure of Players’ Conduct and Common Resources Harvesting : Experimental Evidence from a Nairobi Slum
Becchetti, Leonardo - 2014
experiment run in an area of notably scarce social capital such as the Nairobi slum of Kibera. We document divergence of average …
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Students, temporary workers and co-op workers : an experimental investigation on social preferences
Dragone, Davide; Galeotti, Fabio; Orsini, Raimondello - In: Games 6 (2015) 2, pp. 79-123
We conduct an artefactual field experiment to compare the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of three …
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Essays on the private provision of public goods
Robledo, Julio R. - 2000 - Als Ms. gedr
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Volunteering to take on power : experimental evidence from matrilineal and patriarchal societies in India
Banerjee, Debosree; Ibanez, Marcela; Riener, Gerhard; … - 2015
Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a normative principle but it can also support long term economic growth. Yet in most societies, coercive power is in the hands of men. We investigate whether this form of segregation is due to inherent gender...
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Temporary workers are not free-riders : an experimental investigation
Dragone, Davide; Galeotti, Fabio; Orsini, Raimondello - 2013
We conduct an artefactual field experiment to study whether the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730446
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Free riding in the lab and in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …
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Free-riding in the lab and in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2011
To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314547
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Participatory accountability and collective action : experimental evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - 2013
It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put institutions in place that allow citizens to hold public servants to account, but citizens must participate in those institutions if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a...
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Group Size Effects and Critical Mass in Public Goods Games
Pereda, María - 2019
Understanding whether the size of the interacting group has an effect on cooperative behavior has been a major topic of debate since the seminal works on cooperation in the 1960s. Half a century later, scholars have yet to reach a consensus, with some arguing that cooperation is harder in larger...
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Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods
Rand, David G.; Yoeli, Erez; Hoffman, Moshe - 2015
How can we maximize the common good? This is a central organizing question of public policy design, across political parties and ideologies. The answer typically involves the provisioning of public goods such as fresh air, national defense, and knowledge. Public goods are costly to produce but...
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