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We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...
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Social dilemmas are among the most puzzling issues in the biological and social sciences. Extensive theoretical efforts have been made in various realms such as economics, biology, mathematics, and even physics to figure out solution mechanisms to the dilemma in recent decades. Although...
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experiment in Tanzania, eliciting demand for group versus individual microinsurance, yields substantial support for this …
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Communication is well known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind … this have been questioned and discussed. This study examines the impact of communication on public good provisioning in an … artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous …
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which contain free-riders in a public goods experiment. It focuses on two channels over which face-to-face communication …This paper illustrates how audio-visual data from pre-play face-to-face communication can be used to identify groups … influences contributions to a public good. Firstly, the contents of the face-to-face communication are investigated by …
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We study framing effects in repeated social dilemmas by comparing payoff-equivalent Give- and Take-framed public goods games under varying matching mechanisms (Partners or Strangers) and levels of feedback (Aggregate or Individual). In the Give-framed game, players contribute to a public good,...
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We experimentally study the impact of framing effects in a repeated sequential social dilemma game. Our between-subjects design consists of two group level ("Wall Street" vs. "Community") and two individual level ("First (Second) Movers" vs. "Leaders (Followers)") frames. We find that average...
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