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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality
Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023
comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500522
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Public Good Provision, Punishment, and the Endowment Origin : Experimental Evidence
Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Neururer, Daniel - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154945
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Other People’s Money : Preferences for Equality in Groups
Buchanan, Joy; Roberts, Gavin - 2020
Economic policy decisions often involve a tradeoff between equality and efficiency implemented through income … & Miller 2002) and (Engellman & Strobel 2004) by using an experiment that allows us to measure willingness-to-pay for equality … redistribution. We test whether people are more likely to purchase equality with their own money versus transferring someone else …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091566
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Understanding cooperation in an intertemporal context
Kölle, Felix; Lauer, Thomas - 2020 - This version:December2020
the norm itself. In a second study, we demonstrate that the amount of economic incentives needed to close the cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417935
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2011
be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186505
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary - 2010
be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141233
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary - 2010
be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141393
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How to organize monitoring and munishment : experimental evidence
Goeschl, Timo; Haberl, Beatrix; Soldà, Alice - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390539
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Ostracism in alliances of teams and individuals : voting, exclusion, contribution, and earnings
Huber, Stephan; Model, Jochen; Städter, Silvio - 2019
Alliances often provide a collective good among their allies. This article offers laboratory experimental evidence that the possibility to vote for the exclusion of non-cooperating allies, i.e. ostracism, can be a powerful negative referendum to increase allies’ contributions to the collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978897
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The influence of empirical and normative expectations on cooperation
Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2021 - This version: June 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548861