%0 Generic
%A Diekert, Florian
%A Eymess, Tillmann
%C Heidelberg
%D 2021
%F heidok:31120
%K collective action, team decisions, norm-nudges, common pool resources
%R 10.11588/heidok.00031120
%T Changing Collective Action: Norm-Nudges and Team Decisions
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/31120/
%V 0709
%X 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.