Error-prone inference from response time: The case of intuitive generosity in public-good games

MP Recalde, A Riedl, L Vesterlund - Journal of Public Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Previous research on public-good games revealed greater contributions by fast decision-
makers than by slow decision-makers. Interpreting greater contributions as generosity, this …

Heterogeneous groups cooperate in public good problems despite normative disagreements about individual contribution levels

K Otten, V Buskens, W Przepiorka, N Ellemers - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Norms can promote human cooperation to provide public goods. Yet, the potential of norms
to promote cooperation may be limited to homogeneous groups in which all members …

Equality and efficiency shape cooperation in multiple-public-goods provision problems.

LC Hoenig, R Pliskin, CKW De Dreu - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The functioning of groups and societies requires that individuals cooperate on public goods
such as healthcare and state defense. More often than not, individuals face multiple public …

Varying experimental instructions to improve comprehension: punishment in public goods games

A Ramalingam, AJ Morales, JM Walker - Journal of behavioral and …, 2018 - Elsevier
We provide evidence that more explicit instructions can affect behaviour in a public goods
game with punishment. Instructions that highlight the positive externality associated with …

Norm enforcement with incomplete information

LR De Geest, DC Kingsley - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021 - Elsevier
We study the emergence of norms and their enforcement in a public goods game with
private information about endowments. Subjects were randomly assigned a Low or High …

More talk, less need for monitoring: Communication and deterrence in a public good game

DC Kingsley, D Muise - Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2018 - cambridge.org
This paper investigates the impact of communication in a public good game with a central
authority. The central authority includes a fixed cost that increases with the level of …

Carrots and sticks: new evidence in public goods games with heterogeneous groups

J Chen - Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2022 - Springer
Standard public goods games often assign group members the same marginal per capita
returns to public goods production, but in reality group members facing differential individual …

Charitable giving in the laboratory: advantages of the piecewise linear public goods game

M Menietti, MP Recalde, L Vesterlund - 2018 - direct.mit.edu
The vast majority of US house holds make significant charitable contributions. When
examining the effectiveness of the mechanisms fundraisers use to solicit such funds, it is …

Unilateral Externality in Multi-Group Resource Appropriations: An Experimental Approach

M Wakamatsu, S Managi - Available at SSRN 4847116 - papers.ssrn.com
When multiple groups jointly use a common pool resource (CPR) such as a river, they
occupy unequal positions. Upstream communities have an advantage over downstream …

Communication and heterogeneity in a commons dilemma: an experimental approach

M Wakamatsu, S Managi - 2020 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Heterogeneity is considered harmful for cooperation in common-pool resource extraction. In
this study, we focus on the heterogeneity of users and communication, among the factors …