Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90451 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 135
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG), Göttingen
Abstract: 
On the basis of a conditional contribution experiment conducted in Benin and Uganda, we argue that a conditional u-shaped profile exists, at least in poor communities. Under this profile, individuals invest considerably in public goods when nobody else does, reduce their commitment in reaction to positive group participation and turn into conditional cooperators after a threshold of others' participation is reached. For the understanding of the dynamics of repeated cooperation the implications of this group of u-shaped cooperators might be important.
Subjects: 
Conditional cooperation
Public goods
Experiments
sub-Saharan Africa
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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