We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior in social
dilemmas. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in …

This meta-analysis explores whether leading-by-example increases contributions in public
goods experiments. I find that leadership overall improves public good provision …

Environmental self-identity is considered a promising lever to generate positive spillovers
across pro-environmental behaviors: existing evidence shows that it is positively correlated …

Leadership selection often requires candidates to actively choose to express their interest.
Using a series of incentivized experiments with more than 1000 participants, we compare …

We propose a framework for identifying discrete behavioural types in experimental data. We
re-analyse data from six previous studies of public goods voluntary contribution games …

An experiment is proposed in which the subjects could contribute to a public good which
could be thought of as reducing pollution, which was stochastic. A nudge (announcement of …

Comparing randomly selected and real-world political leaders, this paper investigates the
effect of leading-by-example on voluntary contributions in a linear contribution mechanism …

We conducted an experimental comparison of four leader-selection mechanisms in a public
goods game. The results show that purely voluntary leadership yields the weakest overall …

Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a
normative principle but it can also support long term economic growth. Yet in most societies …

It is frequently observed that despite individual incentives to free ride, humans decide to
cooperate with each other to increase social payoffs. In the current research, we address the …