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Conflict in the Pool
Loukas Balafoutas
Marco Faravelli
Roman M. Sheremeta
其他書名
A Field Experiment
出版
Chapman University, Economic Science Institute
, 2021
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jFbVzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We conduct a field experiment on conflict in swimming pools. When all lanes are occupied, an actor joins the least crowded lane and asks one of the swimmers to move to another lane. The lane represents a contested scarce resource. We vary the actor's valuation (high and low) for the good through the message they deliver. Also, we take advantage of the natural variation in the number of swimmers to proxy for their valuation. Consistent with theoretical predictions, a swimmer's propensity to engage in conflict increases in scarcity (incentive effect) and decreases in the actor's valuation (discouragement effect). We complement the results with survey evidence.