Abstract
We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is evidence for an impulse to be selfish and that cooperative behavior requires self-control effort. Free-riders differ from other contributor types only in their tendency not to have identified a self-control conflict in the first place.
Item Type: | Paper |
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Faculties: | Economics Economics > Chairs > Chair of Empirical Economics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
JEL Classification: | C91, D03, H40 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-18204-9 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 18204 |
Date Deposited: | 06. Feb 2014, 15:29 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 12:59 |
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