Download This PaperAre People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment
22 Pages Posted: 6 Jan 2000
Abstract
We study the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy-method. We find that a third of the subjects can be classified as free riders, whereas 50 percent are conditional cooperators.
Keywords: voluntary contributions, conditional cooperation, reciprocity, free riding, strategy-method, experiments
JEL Classification: H41, D64, D74, C91
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Fischbacher, Urs and Gächter, Simon and Fehr, Ernst, Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=203288 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.203288
Simon Gächter
CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
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IZA Institute of Labor Economics
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