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Brandts, Jordi; Saijō, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002

This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...

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Gender Differences for Public Good Contributions by Competitive versus Group Work Environments

Wozniak, David - 2016

Using a between-subjects design, this experiment compared the effect of competitive and cooperative work in the lab on subsequent public good investments with third parties. Individuals assigned to treatments where pay was determined by group output contributed more on average than individuals...

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From Good Institutions to Generous Citizens : Top-Down Incentives to Cooperate Promote Subsequent Prosociality But Not Norm Enforcement

Stagnaro, Michael; Arechar, Antonio; Rand, David G. - 2017

What makes people willing to pay costs to help others, and to punish others’ selfishness? Why does the extent of such behaviors vary markedly across cultures? To shed light on these questions, we explore the role of formal institutions in shaping individuals’ prosociality and punishment. In...

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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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Focal points in multiple threshold public goods games : a single-project meta-analysis

Corazzini, Luca; Marini, Matteo M. - 2022

This paper is a single-project meta-analysis of four experiments that first model charitable giving as individual contributions to a multiplicity of competing threshold public goods. Given the centrality of the coordination dilemma as the number of recipients increases, we pool 15,936...

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Confusion and reinforcement learning in experimental public goods games

Bayer, Ralph-C.; Renner, Elke; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2009

. The results show that reinforcement learning leads to dynamics similar to those observed in standard public goods games … explained by reinforcement learning. According to our estimates, learning only accounts for 41 percent of the decay in …, differ strongly from the learning dynamics, while a learning model estimated from the limited information treatment tracks …

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Replication in experimental economics : a historical and quantitative approach focused on public good game experiments

Vallois, Nicolas; Jullien, Dorian - 2018

We propose a historical perspective on replication in experimental economics focused on public good games. Our intended contribution is twofold: in terms of method and in terms of object. Methodologically, we blend traditional qualitative history of economics with a less traditional quantitative...

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Single versus multiple-prize all-pay auctions to finance public goods: An experimental analysis

Faravelli, Marco; Stanca, Luca - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 677-688

This paper presents an experimental comparison of single and multiple-prize all-pay auctions as fundraising mechanisms to finance public goods. We consider a setting characterized by heterogenous incomes and incomplete information, where single and multiple-prize incentive mechanisms are...

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Economic incentives and social preferences: Causal evidence of non-separability

Faravelli, Marco; Stanca, Luca - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 273-289

This paper investigates the hypothesis that the objective function of economic agents is non-separable in economic incentives and social preferences. We study fixed-prize contests in a 2×2 experimental design, varying orthogonally the degree of competition of the incentive mechanism (all-pay...

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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Causal Evidence of Non-Separability

Faravelli, Marco; Stanca, Luca - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2013

This paper provides a direct test of the hypothesis that agents' objective functions are non-separable in economic incentives and social preferences. We study experimentally fixed-prize contests using a 2x2 design, varying orthogonally the degree of competition of the incentive mechanism...

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