Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204351 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IFRO Working Paper No. 2013/4
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
We investigate framing effects in a large-scale public good experiment. We measure indicators of explanations previously proposed in the literature, which when combined with the large sample, enable us to estimate a structural model of framing effects. The model captures potential causal effects and the behavioral heterogeneity of cooperation variability. We find that framing only has a small effect on the average level of cooperation but a substantial effect on behavioral heterogeneity and we show that this can be explained almost exclusively by a corresponding change in the heterogeneity of beliefs about other subjects' behavior. Preferences are on the other hand stable between frames.
Subjects: 
Framing
Public Goods
Internet Experiment
Simulation
JEL: 
C13
C71
C93
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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