De Geest, Lawrence R.; Kingsley, David C.(Working Paper, 2020-03)
We test the effect of inequality on peer punishment in a common-pool resource (CPR) experiment with equal endowments (Equal) or unequal endowments (Unequal). Peer punishment reduces extractions in both treatments, but it ...
De Geest, Lawrence R.; Kingsley, David C.(Working Paper, 2019-11)
We study the emergence of norms and their enforcement in a public goods game with private information about endowments. Subjects were randomly assigned a Low or High endowment and across treatments endowments were either ...
Hours worked are fundamentally important for aggregate economic activity,
and their long run trends diverge considerably in Europe versus the United
States. Yet, canonical macroeconomic models even tax-inclusive ones ...
Kingsley, David C.; Brown, Thomas C.(Economics Bulletin, 2012-11-16)
The willingness to accept – willingness to pay disparity raises questions about accepted economic theory. Plott and Zeiler (2005) have suggested that the disparity is the result of subject misconception about experimental ...
Minorities and white women made significant gains in upper-level city government employment over the 1976-83 period; however, their salaries continued to lag those of white men.