The effect of heterogeneity and risk on co-operation: Experimental evidence

IF 1.6 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Anwesha Banerjee
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Using data from a laboratory experiment, I study how co-operation is affected when the benefit from the public good is risky (uncertain) and heterogeneous amongst members of a group. I investigate whether heterogeneity in benefits affects contributions differently under certainty and uncertainty, and whether the distribution of risk within the group affects contribution behavior. I find that heterogeneity in benefits affects contributions less under uncertainty as compared to certainty and that the distribution of risk within the group has no significant effect on co-operative behavior, but these results do not hold once we control for conditional contributions.

异质性和风险对合作的影响:实验证据
我利用实验室实验的数据,研究了当公共产品的收益具有风险(不确定性)且在群体成员之间存在异质性时,合作会受到怎样的影响。我研究了在确定性和不确定性条件下,收益的异质性是否会对贡献产生不同的影响,以及群体内部的风险分布是否会影响贡献行为。我发现,与确定性相比,收益的异质性在不确定性条件下对贡献的影响较小,而且群体内部的风险分布对合作行为没有显著影响,但一旦我们对有条件贡献进行控制,这些结果就不成立了。
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2.60
自引率
12.50%
发文量
113
审稿时长
83 days
期刊介绍: The Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly the Journal of Socio-Economics) welcomes submissions that deal with various economic topics but also involve issues that are related to other social sciences, especially psychology, or use experimental methods of inquiry. Thus, contributions in behavioral economics, experimental economics, economic psychology, and judgment and decision making are especially welcome. The journal is open to different research methodologies, as long as they are relevant to the topic and employed rigorously. Possible methodologies include, for example, experiments, surveys, empirical work, theoretical models, meta-analyses, case studies, and simulation-based analyses. Literature reviews that integrate findings from many studies are also welcome, but they should synthesize the literature in a useful manner and provide substantial contribution beyond what the reader could get by simply reading the abstracts of the cited papers. In empirical work, it is important that the results are not only statistically significant but also economically significant. A high contribution-to-length ratio is expected from published articles and therefore papers should not be unnecessarily long, and short articles are welcome. Articles should be written in a manner that is intelligible to our generalist readership. Book reviews are generally solicited but occasionally unsolicited reviews will also be published. Contact the Book Review Editor for related inquiries.
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