Second Thoughts on Free Riding
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Second Thoughts on Free Riding. / Nielsen, Ulrik Haagen; Tyran, Jean-Robert Karl; Wengström, Erik Roland.
In: Economics Letters, Vol. 122, No. 2, 2014, p. 136-139.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Second Thoughts on Free Riding
AU - Nielsen, Ulrik Haagen
AU - Tyran, Jean-Robert Karl
AU - Wengström, Erik Roland
N1 - JEL Classification: C70; C90 ;D03
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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
AB - 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
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Response time
KW - Free riding
KW - Public goods
KW - Experiment
U2 - 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.021
DO - 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.021
M3 - Journal article
VL - 122
SP - 136
EP - 139
JO - Economics Letters
JF - Economics Letters
SN - 0165-1765
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 73185686