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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people

Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2020

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate 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...

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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021

We report experimental ﬁndings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...

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Donations to increase productivity in public good production : experimental evidence

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023 - This version: March 2023

This research is inspired by in-kind donations that have the capacity to increase the marginal benefit (productivity) in provision of public goods, for example by providing critical infrastructure that increases the productivity of resources utilized by local public good providers. We provide...

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Contribution games and the end-game effect : when things get real ; an experimental analysis

Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2013

We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to previous literature, free riding decreases over rounds and the end-game effect is reversed. -- public...

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Coordination and Free-Riding Problems in Blood Donations

Takeuchi, Ai - 2019

probabilistic information (partial information). The theory predicts that if each individual maximizes the payoff-sum of all players …

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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...

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Giving versus taking : a "real donation" comparison of warm glow and cold prickle in a context-rich environment

Grossman, Philip Johnson; Eckel, Catherine C. - 2012

giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that … Glow ; Cold Prickle ; Charity ; Altruism …

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Blood type and blood donation behaviors : an empirical test of pure altruism theory

Sasaki, Shusaku; Funasaki, Yoshifumi; Kurokawa, Hirofumi; … - 2018

characteristics (altruism, trust, reciprocity, and cooperativeness). After further analyses, we confirmed that the wider number of …

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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