Comparing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Pro-Social Emotions to Enhance Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Pro-Social Emotions to Enhance Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia

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Maria Claudia Lopez () (School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Bogota Colombia)
James J. Murphy () (Department of Economics, University of Alaska, Anchorage)
John M. Spraggon ()
John K. Stranlund () (Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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This paper presents the results from a series of framed field experiments conducted in fishing communities off the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The goal is to investigate the relative effectiveness of exogenous regulatory pressure and pro-social emotions in promoting cooperative behavior in a public goods context. The random public revelation of an individual’s contribution and its consequences for the rest of the group leads to significantly higher public good contributions and social welfare than regulatory pressure, even under regulations that are designed to motivate fully efficient contributions.

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Paper provided by University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Resource Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2009-5.

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Date of creation: Aug 2009
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C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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