Diekert, Florian ; Eymess, Tillmann
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Abstract
We test whether a descriptive norm-nudge is a suitable policy tool to increase cooperation in a social dilemma when decisions are taken by teams, not individuals. Each team in our experiment comes from a different fishing boat at Lake Victoria, Tanzania. The provision of a norm-nudge is randomized across two decision making mechanisms, enabling us to identify experience with egalitarian or hierarchical decision structures, both present at Lake Victoria. The descriptive norm-nudge increases cooperation by 14 and 16 percentage points for egalitarian and hierarchical team decisions, respectively. Captains from boats with hierarchical organization are particularly responsive.
| Document type: | Working paper |
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| Series Name: | Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics |
| Volume: | 0709 |
| Place of Publication: | Heidelberg |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2022 12:24 |
| Date: | December 2021 |
| Number of Pages: | 55 |
| Faculties / Institutes: | The Faculty of Economics and Social Studies > Alfred-Weber-Institut for Economics |
| DDC-classification: | 330 Economics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | collective action, team decisions, norm-nudges, common pool resources |
| Series: | Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics |
