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Does experience eliminate the effect of a default option? - A field experiment on CO2-offsetting for air transport
(2009-10-23)
Earlier research has shown that using a default option has a decisive effect on individuals’ choices. In many cases, however, the low proportion of subjects who switch from the pre-set default option might partly explained ...
Framing and Minimum Levels in Public Good Provision
(2016-04)
Using a laboratory experiment in the field, we examine how the choice architecture of framing a social dilemma – give to or take from a public good – interacts with a policy intervention that enforces a minimum contribution ...
Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
(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 ...
Public Goods and Minimum Provision Levels: Does the institutional formation affect cooperation?
(2016-04)
We investigate the role of institutional formation on the implementation of a binding minimum contribution level in a linear public goods game. Groups either face the minimum level exogenously imposed by a central authority ...
The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
(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 ...