from a laboratory experiment in which subjects choose their group membership, which is interpreted as decision to identify …

We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We … elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment. In the experiment, we elicit willingness to pay for …

public goods experiment conducted in Mali. We use expectations about total public goods provision to estimate a structural …

reciprocal behavior - inherent preferences for reciprocity and repeated interaction - the present paper addresses the question if … incentives. Preferences for reciprocity still affect the structure of an employment relationship early on, though, because of two … reasons. First, preferences for reciprocity effectively reduce the employee’s effort costs. Second, they allow to relax the …

experiment and introduce another treatment with exogenously determined contract types. Like FHZ we find reference point effects … exogenously. We explain this by introducing two further effects, a reciprocity effect and a signaling effect. …

coalitions in different institutions and compares those to a voluntary contribution mechanism. The experiment confirms the rather … smallest common denominator being binding. The experiment thereby shows that the acceptance of institutions depends on how …