Browsing by Author "Wollbrant, Conny"
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Conditional Cooperation and Social Group - Experimental results from Colombia
Martinsson, Peter; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny (2009-08-05)In contrast to previous studies on cross-group comparisons of conditional cooperation, this study keeps cross- and within-country dimensions constant. The results reveal significantly different cooperation behavior between ... -
Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, Conny (2010-07)When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of ... -
Do people avoid opportunities to donate? A natural field experiment on recycling and charitable giving
Knutsson, M.; Martinsson, Peter; Wollbrant, Conny (2012-09)We use a natural field experiment to investigate the hypothesis that generosity is partly involuntary, by examining whether individuals tend to avoid opportunities to act generously. In Sweden, new recycling machines for ... -
Environmental investment decisions: experimental evidence of team versus individual decision making
Felgendreher, Simon; Hennlock, Magnus; Löfgren, Åsa; Wollbrant, Conny (2018-01)We study experimentally how investment decisions are affected by equally stringent but different policy regime treatments and how differences depend on whether decisions are made individually or in groups. In our experiment, ... -
Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
Furtner, Nadja C.; Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Matzat, Dominik; Wollbrant, Conny (2016-11)Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level ... -
Naïve and Capricious: Stumbling into the ring of self-control conflict
Myrseth, K.O.R.; Wollbrant, Conny (2011-08)We model self-control conflict as a stochastic struggle of an agent against a visceral influence, which impels the agent to act sub-optimally. The agent holds costly pre-commitment technology to avoid the conflict altogether ... -
Prices versus Standards and Firm Behavior: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
Hennlock, Magnus; Löfgren, Åsa; Wollbrant, Conny (2017-01)We conduct an artefactual field experiment in which 164 managers and senior advisors recruited from Swedish industry were presented with a task of maximizing net revenue from abatement investments under three different ... -
Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, Conny (2010-05-10)We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated ... -
Self-control and altruism
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Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents
Guzmán, Andrea; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny (2013-03. U)A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the ... -
Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, K.O.R.; Wollbrant, Conny (2012-01)We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger ... -
Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control
Myrseth, K.O.R.; Riener, G.; Wollbrant, Conny (2013-05)The social dilemma may contain, within the individual, a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public ... -
The Intermediary role of microloan officers: Evidence from Ethiopia
Shchetinin, Oleg; Wollbrant, Conny (2013-12)Microfinance institutions are key financial intermediaries between donors and borrowers in developing countries. Loan officers are crucial for establishing and maintaining the relationship between borrowers and microfinance ... -
The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Matzat, Dominik; Wollbrant, Conny (2011-01)This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior ...