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Culture has been referred to as a shared frame, the lens through
which group members make sense of the world. It has been robustly
linked to economic outcomes on the macro level and is also directly
linked to decision-making: in recent years, experimental and
behavioral economists have found evidence that culture impacts
behavior in games and impacts value orientation, trust, fairness,
cooperation and enforcement. Culture research in experimental
economics is still in its early stages and part of the challenge is
methodological and conceptual: how to measure culture and how to
define the level at which individuals share a culture. In the
coming years, this research will help delineate where the results
from our current experiments apply. For example, do current results
speak specifically to WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich
Democracies) societies? Do they say something more fundamental
about human nature across time, experience, and geography? With
increasing migration and globalization, subject pools may become
more culturally diverse and cultural questions therefore
increasingly important for experimentalists. The contributions in
this volume are both conceptual and experimental. The earlier
chapters discuss new approaches to the measurement of culture and
how to conceptualize and define values and beliefs and the groups
that share them. The latter experimental chapters contribute to the
growing body of literature that documents cultural differences in
social and economic behavior.
Research in Experimental Economics focuses on laboratory
experimental economics, but welcomes work from authors of
theoretical, empirical, or field economic research if it would be
of interest to the broader experimental economics community. The
goal of Research in Experimental Economics is to be complementary
with, and not in competition with, traditional journals as outlets
for experimental work. Research in Experimental Economics has the
freedom to consider papers that may not be appropriate for
traditional journals for a variety of reasons. Some examples of
these strengths include: theme volumes, replication studies,
research which requires longer manuscripts for presentation of data
or analysis, and papers on methodological topics. The volumes of
Research in Experimental Economics are not tied to specific,
recurring conferences. Typically, a volume theme is established
with scholars who are willing to serve as volume-specific editors.
The only constraint the senior editor places on the volume editors
is that the papers should undergo a formal referee process using
the same quality standards as traditional journals. Recent topics
have included market power, charitable contributions, and field
experiments.
This volume provides a comprehensive review of the empirical
evidence on corruption generated by recent laboratory and field
experiments conducted by economists and political scientists. The
first part of the volume reviews the evidence produced by
laboratory experiments in relation to gender and cultural
differences in corruption decision-making, as well as the
effectiveness of different anti-corruption policies. This part
concludes with an assessment of the external validity of corruption
investigations relying on laboratory experiments. The second part
of the volume reviews recent contributions to corruption research
made through the use of field experiments. Special attention is
given to advances in measuring corruption in the field,
investigations of clientelism and vote-buying, and the role that
information can play in the fight against corruption. A critical
assessment of the effectiveness of top-down and bottom-up
anti-corruption interventions completes this section. The volume
concludes with important reflections on the role that behavioral
and experimental economics can play in anti-corruption research and
practice.
This volume will present experimental economics research focusing
on issues of environmental quality and sustainability. Specific
topics will include institutions for cap-and-trade, eco-tourism,
urban sprawl, and optimal pollution control strategies. In addition
to the traditional 'introduction', we are asking an expert on
engineering issues in energy, the environment, and sustainability
to write an essay highlighting the benefits to scientists and
engineers of understanding human behaviour.
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Charity With Choice (Hardcover)
R. Mark Issac, Doug Norton; Series edited by R. Mark Issac, Douglas A. Norton
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Four years ago "Research in Experimental Economics" published
experimental evidence on fundraising and charitable contributions.
This volume returns to the intrigue with philanthropy. Employing a
mixture of laboratory and field experiments as well as theoretical
research we present this new volume, "Charity with Choice." New
waves of experiments are taking advantage of well calibrated
environments established by past efforts to add new features to
experiments such as endogeneity and self-selection. Adventurous new
research programs are popping up and some of them are captured here
in this volume. Among the major themes in which the tools of
choice, endogeneity, and self-selection are employed are: What
increases or decreases charitable activity? and How do
organizational and managerial issues affect the performance of
non-profit organizations?
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