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.
- Sprache
-
Englisch
- Erschienen in
-
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014:20
- Klassifikation
-
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Model Construction and Estimation
Noncooperative Games
Public Goods
- Thema
-
Public goods experiments
Social preferences
Mixture models
Experience
History
- Ereignis
-
Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
-
Conte, Anna
Levati, Vittoria
Montinari, Natalia
- Ereignis
-
Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
-
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
- (wo)
-
Lund
- (wann)
-
2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
-
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
Datenpartner
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Conte, Anna
- Levati, Vittoria
- Montinari, Natalia
- Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2014
Ähnliche Objekte (12)
Experience in public goods experiments
Crowdfunding public goods: An experiment
Friendship in a public good experiment
Partner selection in public goods experiments
Threat and punishment in public good experiments
Group Formation in a Public Good Experiment
Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments
Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment
Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment
Deterrence by imperfect sanctions: A public good experiment
Framing and Misperceptions in a Public Good Experiment
Network architecture and mutual monitoring in public goods experiments
Experience in public goods experiments
Crowdfunding public goods: An experiment
Friendship in a public good experiment
Partner selection in public goods experiments
Threat and punishment in public good experiments
Group Formation in a Public Good Experiment
Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments
Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment
Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment
Deterrence by imperfect sanctions: A public good experiment
Framing and Misperceptions in a Public Good Experiment
Network architecture and mutual monitoring in public goods experiments
Experience in public goods experiments
Crowdfunding public goods: An experiment
Friendship in a public good experiment
Partner selection in public goods experiments
Threat and punishment in public good experiments
Group Formation in a Public Good Experiment
Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments
Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment
Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment
Deterrence by imperfect sanctions: A public good experiment
Framing and Misperceptions in a Public Good Experiment