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Identification of individuals and groups in a public goods experiment

Christens, Sven
Dannenberg, Astrid
Sachs, Florian

Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we experimentally investigate whether this finding holds true when decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. We distinguish between groups in which members can discuss face-to-face to reach a decision and groups in which members communicate via computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however, we only find a small and temporary effect of identification, irrespective of the type of communication.

Sponsor
European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 program, action ERC-2014-STG, Project HUCO, grant number 636746.
Citation
In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Vol. 82 / (2019-07-03) , S. 1-9, 101445; ISSN 2214-8043
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@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-20190801616,
  author    ={Christens, Sven and Dannenberg, Astrid and Sachs, Florian},
  title    ={Identification of individuals and groups in a public goods experiment},
  copyright  ={https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/},
  language ={en},
  journal  ={Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics},
  year   ={2019-07-03}
}