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We are grateful to the Editor, two reviewers, A. Angelsen, G. Attanasi, A. Barr, E. Bulte, L. Butera, G. Charness, M. Dufwenberg, C. Fluet, U. Gneezy, J. Hella, D. Houser, R. Lokina, T. Palfrey and participants at seminars at BETA Strasbourg, European University Institute in Florence, GATE Lyon, the HOME General Directorate at the European Commission in Brussels, ICES at George Mason University, Laval University in Quebec, London School of Economics, Oxford University, University of Maastricht, Wageningen University, and at the IMEBESS conference in Toulouse, the ASFEE conference in Paris, the ESA world meeting in Sydney, the SPI conference at the University of Chicago, and the workshop in behavioral economics at the University of California at Santa Barbara for useful comments. Financial support from the FELIS program of the French National Agency for Research (ANR-14-CE28-0010-01) is gratefully acknowledged. This research was performed within the framework of the LABEX CORTEX (ANR-11-LABX-0042) of Université de Lyon, within the program Investissements d’Avenir (ANR-11-IDEX-007) operated by the French National Research Agency (ANR).