Second Thoughts on Free Riding

Ulrik Haagen Nielsen; Jean-Robert Karl Tyran; Erik Roland Wengström

Second Thoughts on Free Riding

Ulrik Haagen Nielsen, Jean-Robert Karl Tyran, Erik Roland Wengström

Department of Economics

Abstract

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

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Lund
Publisher	Department of Economics, Lund University
Number of pages	26
Publication status	Published - 2013

Series	Working Paper Department of Economics, Lund University
Number	29
Volume	2013

Keywords

Faculty of Social Sciences
Response Time
Free Riding;
Public Goods
Experiment

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