Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/261074 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
AWI Discussion Paper Series No. 709
Publisher: 
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
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. 10 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 15 team decisions, respectively. Captains from boats with hierarchical organization are particularly responsive.
Subjects: 
collective action
team decisions
norm-nudges
common pool resources
JEL: 
C72
C92
D7
D91
Q22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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