TY - JOUR
T1 - Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes
AU - Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt
AU - Hansen, Lars Gårn
AU - Wengström, Erik Roland
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - This paper shows that political attitudes are linked to cooperative behavior in an incentivized experiment with a large sample randomly drawn from the Danish population. However, this relationship depends on the way the experiment is framed. In the standard game in which subjects give to a public good, contributions are not linked to political attitudes. In an economically equivalent version, in which subjects take from a public good, left-wingers cooperate significantly more than subjects to the right of the political spectrum. This difference is to some extent caused by differences in beliefs and cooperation preferences but a substantial part is left unexplained, indicating that left wingers find cooperating under this institution more attractive than right wingers do.
AB - This paper shows that political attitudes are linked to cooperative behavior in an incentivized experiment with a large sample randomly drawn from the Danish population. However, this relationship depends on the way the experiment is framed. In the standard game in which subjects give to a public good, contributions are not linked to political attitudes. In an economically equivalent version, in which subjects take from a public good, left-wingers cooperate significantly more than subjects to the right of the political spectrum. This difference is to some extent caused by differences in beliefs and cooperation preferences but a substantial part is left unexplained, indicating that left wingers find cooperating under this institution more attractive than right wingers do.
U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.12.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.12.010
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 158
SP - 416
EP - 427
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
ER -