Arbeitspapier

Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear-cut evidence for the existence of types. People who express free rider preferences show the most systematic deviation from the predicted contributions, because they contribute in the first half of the experiment. We also show that the interaction of heterogeneous types explains a large part of the dynamics of free riding.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2011

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Noncooperative Games
Public Goods
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Thema
public goods games
experiments
voluntary contributions
conditional cooperation
free riding
Öffentliches Gut
Trittbrettfahrerverhalten
Präferenztheorie
Test

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fischbacher, Urs
Gächter, Simon
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2006

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fischbacher, Urs
  • Gächter, Simon
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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