Beware of Broken Windows! First Impressions in Public-Good Experiment

The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

“…It goes back to an experiment showing that an abandoned open car was vandalized quickly in the Bronx but not in Palo Alto, where it was also vandalized as soon as it had a broken window. The effectiveness of broken windows policy, which influenced anticrime policies in such cities as New York City and Los Angeles, has been validated in Corman and Mocan (2005), and laboratory experiments confirm that first impressions causally affect social behavior (Beckenkamp et al 2009). 14 In analyzing effects of empires, Mitchener and Weidenmier (2008) and Grosjean (2011) use gravity models to show that belonging to the same empire in general has effects on trade and cultural integration, respectively.…”

The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

“…It goes back to an experiment showing that an abandoned open car was vandalized quickly in the Bronx but not in Palo Alto, where it was also vandalized as soon as it had a broken window. The effectiveness of broken windows policy, which influenced anticrime policies in such cities as New York City and Los Angeles, has been validated in Corman and Mocan (2005), and laboratory experiments confirm that first impressions causally affect social behavior (Beckenkamp et al 2009). 14 In analyzing effects of empires, Mitchener and Weidenmier (2008) and Grosjean (2011) use gravity models to show that belonging to the same empire in general has effects on trade and cultural integration, respectively.…”

An Experimental Contribution to the Theory of Customary (International) Law

“…What this means and which punishment technologies are implemented will be explained below. Three experiments are from our own lab (denoted MPI; for further detail see (Beckenkamp, Engel et al 2009)). Four experiments have been run in London (denoted NIK, for further detail see (Nikiforakis 2008)).…”

“…The degree of cooperativeness participants experience in the first round sets the stage. Participants gain a sense of what is feasible in this setting (more from Beckenkamp, Engel et al 2009). Actually, in the graph most dots are below the line.…”