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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs, Gächter, Simon·2010·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.100.1.541
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One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others, rather than changing beliefs of what others will contribute over time or people's heterogeneity in preferences makes voluntary cooperation fragile. Universal free riding thus eventually emerges, despite the fact that most people are not selfish. (D12, D 83, H41, Z13)

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Authors
Fischbacher, U., & Gächter, S.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2010-03-01
Volume
100
Issue
1
Pages
541-556
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.100.1.541
OpenAlex
W3123807625
Cited by
1,316
References
8
FWCI
226.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed

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