Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260213 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2017:4
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
This paper shows that political attitudes are linked to cooperative behavior in an incentivized experiment with a large sample randomly drawn from the Danish population. However, this relationship depends on the way the experiment is framed. In the standard game in which subjects give to a public good, contributions are the same regardless of political attitudes. In an economically equivalent version, in which subjects take from a public good, left-wingers cooperate significantly more than subjects in the middle or to the right of the political spectrum. Through simulation techniques we find that this difference in the framing effect across political point of views is to some extent explained by differences in beliefs and basic cooperation preferences.
Subjects: 
Cooperation
Social Dilemma
Political Ideology
Experiment
Simulation
JEL: 
C90
D03
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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