Conditional cooperation: review and refinement

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serval:BIB_9F1B539B7562
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Conditional cooperation: review and refinement
Journal
Economics Letters
Author(s)
Thöni C., Volk S.
ISSN
0165-1765
1873-7374 (online)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2018
Volume
171
Pages
37-40
Language
english
Abstract
Fischbacher et al. (2001), henceforth FGF, introduced an experimental design to measure conditional cooperation in public goods games. We collected data from 17 replication studies of FGF and observed that the criteria used to identify types are not always consistent. We refine FGF's definition of types to resolve ambiguous cases in FGF and its replications. Using our new classification scheme, we find in our combined data set with more than 7000 individual observations that FGF's original findings are by-and-large stable: conditional cooperation is the predominant pattern: free-riding is frequent, while non-minimal, unconditional cooperation is very rare.
Keywords
Conditional cooperation, Public goods game, Replication
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