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Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation
Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822503
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Public implementation eliminates detrimental effects of punishment on human cooperation
Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006
punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267299
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Gender differences in preferences of adolescents: Evidence from a large-scale classroom experiment
Horn, Dániel; Kiss, Hubert János; Lénárd, Tünde - 2021
In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by running incentivized experiments in Hungarian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604930
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Dynamic preferences, moral values and emotions in economical analysis (In French)
PETIT, Emmanuel - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2008
Our analysis is about the role of emotions and moral values in economical analysis. We use the theory of emotions of Livet (2002) in order to understand the behaviour of individuals alternatively in the Akerlof (1991)’s model of undue obedience and in a public good experiment. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005697618
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Gender differences in preferences of adolescents : evidence from a large-scale classroom experiment
Horn, Dániel; Kiss, Hubert János; Lénárd, Tünde - 2021
In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by running incentivized experiments in Hungarian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012440271
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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2020
irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is … cooperative groups to avoid wasting resources for an unneeded punishment institution. In uncooperative groups, it helps members to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542999
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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2021
irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is … cooperative groups to avoid wasting resources for an unneeded punishment institution. In uncooperative groups, it helps members to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337734
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A Welfare-Tradeoff-Ratio-Model of Social Preferences
Hartig, Bjoern - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2011
This paper introduces a model of social preferences featuring a single parameter representing an individual's disposition to share resources with others. The parameter reacts to observed behavior of others in a clearly defined manner. Therefore, the model allows the numerical analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321049
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To What Extent Do Latin Americans Trust, Reciprocate, and Cooperate?: Evidence from Experiments in Six Latin American Countries
Cárdenas, Juan Camilo; Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2009)
This paper explores the extent to which individuals trust, reciprocate, cooperate, and pool risk. We use a battery of field experiments containing the trust game, the voluntary contribution mechanism, and the risk-pooling game, which we apply in six capital cities in Latin America. A salient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018085
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Punish in Public
Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006
Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of … environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for … arriving late to their child’s day care. We show here that enhancing the norm salience role of punishment can eliminate its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441131