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Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(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
(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 ...
Naïve and Capricious: Stumbling into the ring of self-control conflict
(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 ...
Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control
(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 ...
Self-control and altruism
(2010-05-25)
The Intermediary role of microloan officers: Evidence from Ethiopia
(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 ...
Prices versus Standards and Firm Behavior: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
(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 ...
Environmental investment decisions: experimental evidence of team versus individual decision making
(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, ...
Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
(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 ...
Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(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 ...