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Short- & long-term effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives to cooperate in public good games: An experiment

Using a common experimental framework, this paper addresses both the question of the short-term and the long-lasting effects of temporary monetary and non-monetary incentive mechanisms on increasing individual contributions to the public good. The results show that both punishments and rewards signi...

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Autores principales: Lefebvre, Mathieu, Stenger, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6968839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31951622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227360
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description Using a common experimental framework, this paper addresses both the question of the short-term and the long-lasting effects of temporary monetary and non-monetary incentive mechanisms on increasing individual contributions to the public good. The results show that both punishments and rewards significantly increase contributions compared to the baseline, but that monetary sanctions lead to the highest contributions, whereas non-monetary sanctions lead to the lowest contributions. The four types of incentives display long-lasting effects, i.e., contributions do not go back to baseline levels directly after the withdrawal of the incentives. However, rewards appear to have much stronger persistent effects than sanctions, revealing some sort of delayed reciprocity.
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spelling pubmed-69688392020-01-26 Short- & long-term effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives to cooperate in public good games: An experiment Lefebvre, Mathieu Stenger, Anne PLoS One Research Article Using a common experimental framework, this paper addresses both the question of the short-term and the long-lasting effects of temporary monetary and non-monetary incentive mechanisms on increasing individual contributions to the public good. The results show that both punishments and rewards significantly increase contributions compared to the baseline, but that monetary sanctions lead to the highest contributions, whereas non-monetary sanctions lead to the lowest contributions. The four types of incentives display long-lasting effects, i.e., contributions do not go back to baseline levels directly after the withdrawal of the incentives. However, rewards appear to have much stronger persistent effects than sanctions, revealing some sort of delayed reciprocity. Public Library of Science 2020-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6968839/ /pubmed/31951622 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227360 Text en © 2020 Lefebvre, Stenger http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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