Browsing Working papers by Author "Visser, Martine"
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Bridging the Great Divide in South Africa: Inequality and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods
Burns, Justine; Visser, Martine (2006)We explore the effect of income inequality and peer punishment on voluntary provision of public goods in an experimental context. Our sample draws from nine fishing communities in South-Africa where high levels of inequality ... -
Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation
Hasson, Reviva; Löfgren, Åsa; Visser, Martine (2009-12-08)We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of ... -
Welfare Implications of Peer Punishment in Unequal Societies
Visser, Martine (2006)We show that peer sanctioning increases cooperation in public goods experiments more in unequally endowed groups than in equally endowed groups. Punishment results in a redistribution of wealth from high to low endowment ...