Understanding the nature of cooperation variability

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fosgaard, Toke R.; Hansen, Lars Garn; Wengstrom, Erik
• 署名单位: University of Copenhagen; University of Copenhagen; Lund University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.09.004
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 134-143
• 关键词: Framing; public goods; Internet experiment; simulation; Heterogeneous sample

摘要

Our paper investigates 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 heterogeneity of cooperation behavior. We find that framing only has a small effect on the average level of cooperation but a substantial effect on behavioral heterogeneity explained almost exclusively by a corresponding change in the heterogeneity of beliefs about Other subjects' behavior. The impact of changes in preferences and game form misperception is on the other hand negligible. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.