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This paper studies contributions and punishments in a linear public good game, where group members have different sources of endowment. We compare the behavior of homogeneous groups, in which subjects are exogenously assigned the same endowments, with that of heterogeneous groups, in which half...
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comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of …
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the norm itself. In a second study, we demonstrate that the amount of economic incentives needed to close the cooperation …
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We study a laboratory social dilemma game in which incentives to steal from others lead to the socially inefficient … theft and most groups achieve much greater efficiency in the presence of communication. Ease of identifying who has engaged …
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cooperation and efficiency in a social dilemma change in response to varying how monitoring and punishment are jointly organized … in terms of cooperation and efficiency. Monitoring, both centralized and decentralized, cannot raise cooperation relative …
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In this paper, we investigate the joint influence of empirical and normative expectations on cooperative behavior. We conduct two experimental studies (n = 243) in which we separately elicit (i) behavior in a public goods game and (ii) social norms under the form of normative and empirical...
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others. Yet, little is known about gender differences in the equity-efficiency trade-off. It has been suggested that females …, because people in power of redistributing resources often face a conflict between equity and efficiency, to the point that … collected by my research group since we introduced this game. The results show that females prefer equity over efficiency to a …
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, but also should have no efficiency benefit under standard assumptions of self-interested agents. We experimentally … chosen by voting. -- Sanction ; social dilemma ; public goods ; voluntary contribution mechanism ; punishment ; experiment …
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This paper reviews some of the economic experimental evidence on conformism. There is nothing to match the early psychology experiments where subjects were often swayed by the behaviour of others to an extraordinary degree, but there is plenty of evidence of conformism. This seems built-in to...
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focuses on context-specific empirical studies. We use a public good game experiment with endogenous groups to investigate how … paradigm and immigration requirements are set by in-group voting. Our results suggest that fairness and efficiency of …
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