Second Thoughts on Free Riding
(2014) In Economics Letters 122(2). p.136-139- 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 free riders lacking 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.
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- author
- Nielsen, Ulrik H. ; Tyran, Jean-Robert and Wengström, Erik LU
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- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Response Time, Free Riding, Public Goods, Experiment
- in
- Economics Letters
- volume
- 122
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 136 - 139
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- wos:000331687400008
- scopus:84889678315
- ISSN
- 0165-1765
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.021
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- ffc3e4bd-2c52-4d7f-82a5-7be77d60a65e (old id 4157552)
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