Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101940 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8287
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock contest, and measure its effects upon cooperation using a multi-level public good game. We demonstrate that conflict increases cooperation within groups, while decreasing cooperation between groups. Moreover, we find that cooperation between groups increases in response to an increase in the efficiency gains from cooperation only when the two groups have not previously interacted.
Subjects: 
within- and between-group cooperation
inter-group conflict
group identity
multi-level public good experiment
Tullock contest
other-regarding preferences
JEL: 
C92
D64
D74
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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