Replication data for: Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Urs Fischbacher; Simon Gachter
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Project Citation:
Fischbacher, Urs, and Gachter, Simon. Replication data for: Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2010. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112335V1
Project Description
Summary:
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One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others, rather than changing beliefs of what others will contribute over time or people's heterogeneity in preferences makes voluntary cooperation fragile. Universal free riding thus eventually emerges, despite the fact that most people are not selfish. (D12, D 83, H41, Z13)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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social preferences;
public goods;
cooperation
JEL Classification:
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D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
H41 Public Goods
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
H41 Public Goods
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Geographic Coverage:
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Switzerland
Data Type(s):
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experimental data
Methodology
Unit(s) of Observation:
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repeated individual decisions,
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