title: Changing Collective Action: Norm-Nudges and Team Decisions
creator: Diekert, Florian
creator: Eymess, Tillmann
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: 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.
date: 2021-12
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/31120/7/Diekert_Eymess_2021_dp709.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00031120
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-311204
identifier:   Diekert, Florian ; Eymess, Tillmann  (2021) Changing Collective Action: Norm-Nudges and Team Decisions.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/31120/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng