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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Urs Fischbacher
  • Simon Gächter
  • Ernst Fehr
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Economics Letters
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0165-1765
Volume 71
Number 3
Page Range 397 - 404
Date 2001
Abstract Text We study the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy-method. We find that a third of the subjects can be classified as free riders, whereas 50% are conditional cooperators.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00394-9
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