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Beware of Broken Windows! First Impressions in Public-Good ExperimentMartin BeckenkampMax Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Christoph EngelMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; University of Bonn - Faculty of Law & Economics; Universität Osnabrück - Faculty of Law Andreas GlöcknerMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bernd IrlenbuschLondon School of Economics & Political Science - Department of Management; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Heike Hennig-SchmidtUniversity of Bonn - Laboratory for Experimental Economics Sebastian KubeMax Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; University of Bonn; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Michael J. KurschilgenMax Planck Institute for Collective Goods Alexander MorellMax Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Andreas NicklischMax Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Hans-Theo NormannHeinrich-Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf - Department of Economics; Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Emanuel V. TowfighMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; New York University School of Law January 1, 2013 MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2009/21 Abstract: Broken Windows: the metaphor has changed New York and Los Angeles. Yet it is far from un-disputed whether the broken windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we put two components of the theory to the test. We show that first impressions and early punishment of antisocial behaviour are independently and jointly causal for cooperativeness. The effect of good first impressions and of early vigilance cannot be explained with, but adds to, participants’ initial level of benevolence. Mere impression management is not strong enough to maintain cooperation. Cooperation stabilizes if good first impressions are combined with some risk of sanctions. Yet if we control for first impressions, early vigilance only has a small effect. The effect vanishes over time.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 32 working papers seriesDate posted: July 12, 2009 ; Last revised: January 29, 2013Suggested CitationContact Information
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