Sustaining cooperation in laboratory public goods experiments: a selective survey of the literature

A Chaudhuri - Experimental economics, 2011‏ - Springer
I survey the literature post Ledyard (Handbook of Experimental Economics, ed. by J. Kagel,
A. Roth, Chap. 2, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995) on three related issues in …

Entry into winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: An experimental study

TN Cason, WA Masters, RM Sheremeta - Journal of Public Economics, 2010‏ - Elsevier
This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-
all tournament with a single fixed prize, and a novel proportional-payment design in which …

Identities, selection, and contributions in a public-goods game

G Charness, R Cobo-Reyes, N Jiménez - Games and Economic Behavior, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The notions of one's social identity and group membership have recently become topics for
economic theory and experiments, and recent research has shown the importance of identity …

Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.

G Spadaro, C Graf, S **, S Arai, Y Inoue… - Journal of Personality …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

Identity, homophily and in-group bias

S Currarini, F Mengel - European Economic Review, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Many instances of social interaction display either or both of the following well-documented
phenomena. People tend to interact with similar others (homophily). They also tend to treat …

Using experimental methods to understand why and how we give to charity

L Vesterlund - Handbook of experimental economics, 2016‏ - degruyter.com
Individuals who are concerned for a nonprofit's mission benefit from activities that increase
the nonprofit's output. As these benefits are enjoyed by anyone with similar concerns …

Organ allocation policy and the decision to donate

JB Kessler, AE Roth - American Economic Review, 2012‏ - aeaweb.org
Organ donations from deceased donors provide the majority of transplanted organs in the
United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple …

Endogenous group formation

TK Ahn, RM Isaac, TC Salmon - Journal of Public Economic …, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
While the rules governing the formation of groups engaging in collective action may have
significant impact on group size and behavior of members, most experiments on public …

Continuous time and communication in a public-goods experiment

R Oprea, G Charness, D Friedman - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
We investigate the nature of continuous time strategic interaction in public-goods games. In
one set of treatments, four subjects make contribution decisions in continuous time during a …

Efficient coordination in weakest-link games

A Riedl, IMT Rohde, M Strobel - The Review of Economic …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Coordination problems resembling weakest-link games with multiple Pareto ranked
equilibria are ubiquitous in the economy and society. This makes it important to understand …