Disposition, history and contributions in public goods experiments

Gunnthorsdottir, Anna; Houser, Daniel; McCabe, Kevin

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2005.03.008

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“…with fixed memberships over time and groups might have been 'locked' into a particular path-dependent contribution pattern, for example owing to a frequent tendency of conditional cooperation (e.g. Kurzban & Houser 2005;Gunnthorsdottir et al 2007;Fischbacher & Gächter 2010). Such path-dependency might lead to substantially different group average contributions, and therefore to large between-group variance.…”

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Culture and cooperation

Gächter

Herrmann

Thöni

2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper, we provide an answer by analysing the data of Herrmann et al. (2008a), who studied cooperation and punishment in 16 subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by Inglehart & Baker (2000)). We use analysis of variance to disentangle the importance of cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and grouplevel differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a substantial influence on the extent of cooperation, in addition to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences identified by previous research. The significance of this result is that cultural background has a substantial influence on cooperation in otherwise identical environments. This is particularly true in the presence of punishment opportunities.

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“…Such inter-individual differences have a potential of explaining aggregate behaviour and group-level differences (e.g. Gächter & Thöni 2005;Kurzban & Houser 2005;Gunnthorsdottir et al 2007;Fischbacher & Gächter 2010) and may play a major role for the stability of cooperation (McNamara & Leimar 2010). …”

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Culture and cooperation

Gächter

Herrmann

Thöni

2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

252

172

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“…For experiments that allow communication, see e.g. Brosig, Ockenfels and Weimann (2003), Bochet, Page and Putterman (2006); for sorting by subject type, see Gunnthorsdottir, Houser and McCabe (2007), Page, Putterman and Unel (2005). 2 There is an extensive literature studying incentive-compatible mechanisms in the provision of public goods (e.g.…”

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Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes: An Experiment

2010

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The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of exacerbating the free-rider problem, depending on parameter settings. Most groups quickly learned to choose parameters inducing efficient outcomes. But despite uniform money payoffs implying common interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes, and of gender and intelligence.JEL classification: C91, C92, D71, D72, H41

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“…Cooperators start out making high contributions, but over time recognize the presence of free-riders, and reduce their contributions in retaliation, leading to the oft-seen pattern of decay. See Gunnthorsdottir, Houser and McCabe (2007) [30] for an example of this kind of argument.…”

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Recent Advances in Experimental Studies of Social Dilemma Games

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Disposition, history and contributions in public goods experiments

Cited by 235 publications

References 13 publications

Culture and cooperation

Culture and cooperation

Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes: An Experiment

Recent Advances in Experimental Studies of Social Dilemma Games

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