Second Thoughts on Free Riding

TY - UNPB

T1 - Second Thoughts on Free Riding

AU - Nielsen, Ulrik Haagen

AU - Tyran, Jean-Robert Karl

AU - Wengström, Erik Roland

N1 - JEL Codes: C70; C90; D03

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a largescale online Public Goods Game and nd that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game and is not driven by free riders lacking cognitive ability, confusion, or natural swiftness in responding. Our results suggest that conditional cooperation serves as a norm and that free riders need time to resolve a moral dilemma

AB - We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a largescale online Public Goods Game and nd that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game and is not driven by free riders lacking cognitive ability, confusion, or natural swiftness in responding. Our results suggest that conditional cooperation serves as a norm and that free riders need time to resolve a moral dilemma

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Response Time

KW - Free Riding;

KW - Public Goods

KW - Experiment

M3 - Working paper

T3 - Working Paper Department of Economics, Lund University

BT - Second Thoughts on Free Riding

PB - Department of Economics, Lund University

CY - Lund

ER -