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Doing good or doing harm: experimental evidence on giving and taking in public good games.
- Source :
- Experimental Economics; Sep2015, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p432-441, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- We replicate Andreoni (Quarterly Journal of Economics 110: 1-21, )'s finding that agents behave more selfishly when taking from a public account than when giving to a public good. Based on a neutral language setting we add new insights into motivations to give or take in a linear public good setting: we find that Andreoni's result is partly driven by the complete elimination of giving options in the taking frame. However, a pure extension of the action space into the taking domain also leads to a significant increase in selfish behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PUBLIC goods
ACCOUNTANTS
SELFISHNESS
BEHAVIORAL assessment
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13864157
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Experimental Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 108798245
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-014-9411-2