Second Thoughts on Free Riding

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

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.021

Second Thoughts on Free Riding

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

Department of Economics

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Abstract

We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find 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 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
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	122
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	136-139
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0165-1765
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.021
Publication status	Published - Feb 2014

Keywords

Faculty of Social Sciences
Response time
Free riding
Public goods
Experiment

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