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When fairness is not enough : the disproportionate contributions of the poor in a collective action problem

Malthouse, Eugene; Pilgrim, Charlie; Hills, Thomas; … - 2023

Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations people face a dilemma about making individually costly but...

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Media and social capital

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...

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On the political and social consequences of economic inequality : civic engagement in Colombia

Justino, Patricia; Arjona, Ana; Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo - 2019

This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this impact persists over time, and what mechanisms may shape the relationship between inequality and civic engagement. The results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with...

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What explains collective action : the impact of social capital, incentive structures and economic benefits

Skreli, Engjell; Xhoxhi, Orjon; Imami, Drini; Rama, Klodjan - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 3, pp. 1622-1646

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Institutional enterprise as a compromise : the national organization of science in France

Galvez-Behar, Gabriel - In: Management & organizational history : MOH 12 (2017) 3, pp. 237-260

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Partnership, cross-sector partnership and cooperation as manifestation of social capital

Prudzienica, Maja; Markowska-Przybyła, Urszula - In: Czech journal of social sciences, business and … 6 (2017) 4, pp. 19-30

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Formation and long-run stability of cooperative groups in a social dilemma situation

Maruta, Toshimasa; Okada, Akira - In: International journal of economic theory 11 (2015) 1, pp. 121-135

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Cooperation in small groups : the effect of group size

Nosenzo, Daniele; Quercia, Simone; Sefton, Martin - 2013 - Revised version of 2012-17, This version: 29 July 2013

We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments … find that cooperation is highest of all in twoperson groups. The findings in the high MPCR condition are consistent with … those from n-person prisoner's dilemma and oligopoly experiments that suggest it is more difficult to sustain cooperation in …

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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013

can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

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Entry or exit? : the effect of voluntary participation on cooperation

Nosenzo, Daniele; Tufano, Fabio - 2015

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an …

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