Second Thoughts on Free Riding

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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
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftEconomics Letters
Vol/bind122
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)136-139
Antal sider4
ISSN0165-1765
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2014

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