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Second Thoughts on Free Riding

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Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

136-139

Publication/Series

Economics Letters

Volume

122

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Response Time
  • Free Riding
  • Public Goods
  • Experiment

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0165-1765