Understanding the Nature of Cooperation Variability

Toke Reinholt Fosgaard, Lars Gårn Hansen, Erik Roland Wengström

Abstract

We investigate framing effects in a large-scale public good experiment. We measure indicators of explanations previously proposed in the literature, which when combined with the large sample, enable us to estimate a structural model of framing effects. The model captures potential causal effects and the behavioral heterogeneity of cooperation variability. We find that framing only has a small effect on the average level of cooperation but a substantial effect on behavioral
heterogeneity and we show that this can be explained almost exclusively by a corresponding change in the heterogeneity of beliefs about other subjects’ behavior. Preferences are on the other hand stable between frames.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
UdgivelsesstedFrederiksberg
UdgiverDepartment of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Sider1-22
Antal sider22
StatusUdgivet - 2013
NavnIFRO Working Paper
Nummer2013/4

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