@techreport{Levati2007cooperators,
abstract = {We use a two-person public goods experiment to distinguish between effciency and fairness as possible motivations for cooperative behavior. Asymmetric marginal per capita returns allow only the high-productivity player to increase group payoffs when contributing positive amounts. Asymmetric contributions, however, yield unequal individual payoffs. To assess a priori cooperative preferences, we measure individual `value-orientations' by means of the decomposed game technique. Overall, our results indicate that fairness (or inequality aversion) is more in\textdegree{}uential than efficiency in driving behavior.},
address = {Jena},
author = {Maria Vittoria Levati and Matteo Ploner},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {A13; C92; D63; H41; Public goods experiments; Conditional cooperation; Fairness; Effciency; Value orientations; Nichtkooperatives Spiel; \"{O}ffentliches Gut; Test; Kooperation; Gerechtigkeit; Wirtschaftliche Effizienz},
language = {eng},
number = {2007,067},
publisher = {Universit\"{a}t Jena und Max-Planck-Institut f\"{u}r \"{O}konomik},
title = {Are cooperators efficiency- or fair-minded?: evidence from a public goods experiment},
type = {Jena economic research papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25633},
year = {2007}
}
