Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon

Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments

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2010

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Fischbacher, Urs

Gächter, Simon

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Open Access Green

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American Economic Review. 2010, 100(1), pp. 541-556. Available under: doi: 10.1257/aer.100.1.541

Zusammenfassung

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.

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330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

Public goods experiments, social preferences, conditional cooperation, free riding

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FISCHBACHER, Urs, Simon GÄCHTER, 2010. Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments. In: American Economic Review. 2010, 100(1), pp. 541-556. Available under: doi: 10.1257/aer.100.1.541

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@article{Fischbacher2010Socia-11946,
  year={2010},
  doi={10.1257/aer.100.1.541},
  title={Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments},
  number={1},
  volume={100},
  journal={American Economic Review},
  pages={541--556},
  author={Fischbacher, Urs and Gächter, Simon}
}

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