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Group Identity and Social Preferences
Yan Chen,Sherry Xin Li +1 more
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This paper found that participants are significantly more likely to choose social welfare-maximizing actions when matched with an ingroup member when compared to when they are matched with a non-group identity.Abstract:
We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member, they show a 47 percent increase in charity concerns and a 93 percent decrease in envy. Likewise, participants are 19 percent more likely to reward an ingroup match for good behavior, but 13 percent less likely to punish an ingroup match for misbehavior. Furthermore, participants are significantly more likely to choose social-welfare-maximizing actions when matched with an ingroup member. All results are consistent with the hypothesis that participants are more altruistic toward an ingroup match. (read more
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When does team remuneration work? An experimental study on interactions between workplace contexts
Simon Bartke,Felix Gelhaar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how interactions of workplace context elements affect cooperation when free-riding is possible and found that participants cooperate significantly more than Nash equilibria predict.
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Essays on Contest Design and Contract Design.
TL;DR: Chen et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the interactive effect of prize allocation and interim information revelation in two-stage elimination contests and found that revealing information motivates effort only under a single prize.
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Network formation under institutional constraints
TL;DR: In this article, the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion under projects ECO2009-11213 and ECO 2009-07939, co-funded by the ERDF, supported by the Basque Government s funding to Grupos Consolidados.
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Intention-based Social Influence in Sharing Experiments
Daniela Di Cagno,Werner Güth,Werner Güth,Marcello Puca,Marcello Puca,Marcello Puca,Patrizia Sbriglia +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, intention-based social influence from other group members on proposers and recipients in standard and modified Ultimatum and Impunity games was investigated, and it was shown that social influence enhances conformity seeking and thereby efficiency, but its effect is strongly role dependent.
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A theory of fairness, competition and cooperation
Ernst Fehr,Klaus M. Schmidt +1 more
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