Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260085 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2013:29
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game and is not driven by free riders lacking cognitive ability, confusion, or natural swiftness in responding. Our results suggest that conditional cooperation serves as a norm and that free riders need time to resolve a moral dilemma.
Subjects: 
Response Time
Free Riding
Public Goods
Experiment
JEL: 
C70
C90
D03
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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