Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment.

Fischbacher, U., Gächter, S., & Fehr, E. (2001). Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment. Economics Letters, 71(3), 397-404.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2001

Volume

71

Issue

3

Pages

397-404

ISSN

0165-1765

DOI

10.1016/s0165-1765(01)00394-9

DOI registrant

Elsevier

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00394-9

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economics_finance

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Primes

• Other-Regarding Preferences
  • And because aggregate outcomes depend on the distribution of cross-argument weights across a population rather than on the modal type, the prime directs attention to sorting and matching mechanisms: a modest fraction of conditional cooperators can sustain cooperation if matched with similar types.

    This sourceClassifies ~50% of subjects as conditional cooperators and ~⅓ as free riders, the population mix whose matching sustains or collapses cooperation.

Domain-specific

• Contingent cooperator
  • Contingent cooperation makes prosocial action conditional on a sufficiently cooperative social environment.

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