Changing collective action: norm-nudges and team decisions
- 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.
| Author: | Florian DiekertORCiDGND, Tillmann Eymess |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1039493 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/103949 |
| Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Heidelberg |
| Place of publication: | Heidelberg |
| Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2023/04/24 |
| Pagenumber: | 54 |
| Series: | AWI Discussion Paper Series ; 709 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00031120 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät |
| Fakultätsübergreifende Institute und Einrichtungen | |
| Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| Fakultätsübergreifende Institute und Einrichtungen / Zentrum für Klimaresilienz | |
| Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre / Professur für Umweltökonomik | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
