. Individual behavior plays an important role within these situations, while identity strongly impacts on behavior. This paper asks … how group identity impacts the provision of a public good in a contest situation with different prize sharing rules. We … show that group identity significantly increases contributions. Moreover, it turns out that identity affects how subjects …

We study the interplay between leading-by-example and group identity in a public goods game experiment. A common … identity between the leader and her followers is beneficial for cooperation: average contributions are more than 30% higher … than in a treatment where no identity was induced. In two further treatments we study the effects of heterogeneous …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …

social dilemmas. We subject our model to data from an experimental public goods game and a risk experiment, and we measure …

predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …

punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team … investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly …, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals. …

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …