Work-in-Progress

Threshold Effects in Prosocial Contributions

Thu
Jan
18
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Date
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Time
4:00pm - 5:30pm US Eastern Time
Event Type
Work-in-Progress
Work-in-Progress Seminars are designed to generate in-depth discussion of new scholarly work. For the pre-circulated paper and to attend, please register with the link below. Room location information will be shared with preparation materials following your registration.

Erin Metz McDonnell
Notre Dame du Lac Associate Professor of Sociology
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow

James Rauch
Professor of Economics
University of California-San Diego

Justin Abraham
PhD Candidate, Economics
University of California-San Diego

This paper represents an Interdisciplinary collaboration between a sociologist and two economists in an experiment looking at theoretical question of importance to public administration using an experimental game grounded in economics theory about conditional cooperation.


Speakers / Related People
Erin Metz McDonnell

Erin McDonnell is the Notre Dame du Lac Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She is a theorist whose research engages Organizational, Political, Cultural, and Economic Sociology. Her work focuses on how social organization affects economic outcomes, from consumer groups to administrative capacity in African states...
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