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| Title: | | Are cooperators efficiency- or fair-minded?: evidence from a public goods experiment  |
| Authors: | | Levati, Maria Vittoria Ploner, Matteo |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2007,067 |
| 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°uential than efficiency in driving behavior. |
| Subjects: | | Public goods experiments Conditional cooperation Fairness Effciency Value orientations |
| JEL: | | A13 C92 D63 H41 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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