Disposition, history and contributions in public goods experiments
Disposition, history and contributions in public goods experiments
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jebo.2005.03.008
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发表时间:
2007-02-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
McCabe, Kevin
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作者:
Gunnthorsdottir, Anna;Houser, Daniel;McCabe, Kevin
Novel voluntary contribution mechanism experiments are used to investigate how individuals' experience (history) and cooperative disposition and interact. We find that a subject's initial public contribution is a useful measure of cooperative disposition. History effects are isolated by comparing treatments with random group assignment to treatments where subjects are grouped based on their contributions. The latter treatment increases the frequency with which cooperative subjects interact. We trace the familiar decay in public good contributions over rounds, which are observed under random grouping, to reductions in contributions by those with cooperative dispositions when they are forced to repeatedly interact with free-riders. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.