Second Thoughts on Free Riding

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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 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
Original languageEnglish
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume122
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)136-139
Number of pages4
ISSN0165-1765
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Bibliographical note

JEL Classification: C70; C90 ;D03

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