Arbeitspapier
Experience in public goods experiments
We use information on students´ past participation in economic experiments, as stored in our database, to analyze whether behavior in public goods games is affected by experience (i.e., previous participation in social dilemma-type experiments) and history (i.e., participation in experiments of a different class than the social dilemma). We have three main results. First, at the aggregate level, the amount subjects contribute and expect others to contribute decrease with experience. Second, a mixture model reveals that the proportion of unconditional cooperators decreases with experience, while that of selfish individuals increases. Finally, history also influences behavior, although to a lesser extent than experience. Our findings have important methodological implications for researchers, who are urged to control for subjects´ experience and history in their experiments if they want to improve the external validity and replicability of their results.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2014-010
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Model Construction and Estimation
Noncooperative Games
Public Goods
- Thema
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experience
history
mixture models
public goods experiments
social preferences
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Conte, Anna
Levati, M. Vittoria
Montinari, Natalia
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
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Jena
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Conte, Anna
- Levati, M. Vittoria
- Montinari, Natalia
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
Entstanden
- 2014