The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers' Rules of Capture

Wilson, Bart J.; Jaworski, Taylor; Schurter, Karl; Smyth, Andrew

doi:10.1093/jleo/ewr024

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“…Our design of the property rights game is similar to Ahn et al (2016) who study a repeated game in a laboratory environment. Related are also Wilson, Jaworski, Schurter, and Smyth (2012) and Kimbrough, Smith, and Wilson (2010), who show in a series of production and consumption experiments that property rights are respected most when they emerge as informal agreements within civil minded groups.…”

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Survey Response and Observed Behavior: Emancipative and Secular Values Predict Prosocial Behaviors

Kistler

Thöni

Welzel

2017

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Since decades, cross-cultural psychology examines moral values using data from standardized surveys, assuming that values guide human behavior. We add to this literature by studying the link between moral values and various forms of prosocial behavior, using data from respondents of the sixth World Values Survey in Germany who participated in an online behavioral experiment. The experiment consists of a series of incentivized tasks and allows us to elaborate the association between survey-measured values and three facets of observed prosocial behavior. The evidence boils down to three findings. While (a) emancipative values relate to higher common pool contributions and (b) higher donations to charitable organizations, (c) secular values are linked with more productive and less protective investments. As these results conform to key theories and reach empirical significance in a major postindustrial nation, we conclude that we have important evidence at hand highlighting the potential of combined survey-experiment methods to establish value–behavior links that are otherwise inexplorable.

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Section: Design and Proceduresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey Response and Observed Behavior: Emancipative and Secular Values Predict Prosocial Behaviors

Kistler

Thöni

Welzel

2017

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…Additional research has examined a variety of other psychological underpinnings of ownership such as how people reason about transferring, stealing, destroying, controlling, and investing labor in property (Kanngiesser et al, 2010;Kanngiesser & Hood, 2014;Kim & Kalish, 2009;Neary, Friedman, and Burnstein, 2009;Olson & Shaw, 2011;Rossano, Rakoczy, & Tomasello, 2011). Another literature has examined how the psychology of property rights affects economic decisions (Hoffman, McCabe, Shachat, & Smith, 1994;Kahneman, Knetsch, & Thaler, 1991;Oxoby & Spraggon, 2008), including the emergence of property conventions in interactive economic games (DeScioli & Wilson, 2011;Kimbrough, 2011;Kimbrough, Smith, & Wilson, 2010;Kimbrough et al, 2008;Wilson, Jaworski, Schurter, & Smyth, 2012).…”

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Ownership Dilemmas: The Case of Finders Versus Landowners

2017

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People sometimes disagree about who owns which objects, and these ownership dilemmas can lead to costly disputes. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying people's judgments about finder versus landowner cases, in which a person finds an object on someone else's land. We test psychological hypotheses motivated directly by three major principles that govern these cases in the law. The results show that people are more likely to favor the finder when the object is in a public space compared to a private space. We find mixed support for the hypothesis that people are less likely to favor a finder who is employed by the landowner. Last, we find no support for the hypothesis that people are more likely to favor finders for objects located above ground compared to below ground. We discuss implications for psychological theories of ownership and potential applications to property law.

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“…3There are interesting laboratory experiments in the emergence of ‘property rights’ (Crockett et al ., 2009; Jaworski and Wilson, 2013; Kimbrough et al ., 2010; Wilson et al ., 2012). These experiments rely on reputation effects and engendered trust in relatively small groups.…”

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Much of the ‘economics of property rights’ devalues property and legal rights

Hodgson

2015

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Abstract. Legal theorists and other commentators have long established a distinction between property and possession. According to this usage adopted here, possession refers to control of a resource, but property involves legally sanctioned rights. Strikingly, prominent foundational accounts of the 'economics of property rights' concentrate on possession, downplaying the issue of legitimate legal rights

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The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers' Rules of Capture

Cited by 27 publications

References 24 publications

Survey Response and Observed Behavior: Emancipative and Secular Values Predict Prosocial Behaviors

Survey Response and Observed Behavior: Emancipative and Secular Values Predict Prosocial Behaviors

Ownership Dilemmas: The Case of Finders Versus Landowners

Much of the ‘economics of property rights’ devalues property and legal rights

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