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Erik Wengström
Professor, Director of Doctoral studies, Department of Economics
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Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes
Author
Summary, in English
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 not linked to political attitudes. In an economically equivalent version, in which subjects take from a public good, left-wingers cooperate significantly more than subjects to the right of the political spectrum. This difference is to some extent caused by differences in beliefs and cooperation preferences but a substantial part is left unexplained, indicating that left wingers find cooperating under this institution more attractive than right wingers do.
Department/s
- Department of Economics
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Pages
416-427
Publication/Series
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume
158
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Economics
Keywords
- Cooperation
- Experiment
- Political ideology
- Simulation
- Social dilemma
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0167-2681