APKNOW1EDGMB~T I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. A. G. Karczmar for the kindness and patience that he has shown me as his graduate student and during the preparation of this thesis.

The neoliberal university can be a restrictive, repressive, and/or oppressive space. However, the contributions in this edited publication “Reimagining Academy: ShiFting towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care” by Alison L Black Rachael Dwyer published Palgrave Macmillan represent hope, kindness, love, compassion. words works contained book gift to any reader many enriching, impactf...

Acknowledgment I thank Selex ES and SESM for supporting my PhD's scholarship. Also, I express my gratitude to Dr. Alfonso Farina for his technical support during my research activities, the continuous assistance, encouragement and kindness demonstrated during these three years.

We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; Maintenance already exists maintained. In four lab online experiments (n=2,105), we document a robust asymmetry preferences perceptions incentive-equivalent these problems. find fewer conditional cooperators more free riders than Provision, difference that i...