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Real Wealth and Experimental Cooperation: Evidence from Field Experiments

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Juan Camilo Cardenas

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This paper explores how wealth and inequality can affect self-governed solutions to commons dilemmas by constraining group cooperation. It reports a series of experiments in the field where subjects are actual commons users. Household data about the participants’ context explain statistically the usually observed wide variation found within and across groups in similar experiments. Participants’ wealth and inequality reduced cooperation when groups were allowed to have face-toface communication between rounds. There are implications for a greater awareness of nonpayoff asymmetries affecting cooperation in heterogeneous groups, apart from heterogeneity in the payoffs structure of the game.

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Paper provided by The Field Experiments Website in its series Artefactual Field Experiments with number 0017.

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  1. Jeff Carpenter & Juan Camilio Cardenas, 2002. "Using Cross-Cultural Experiments to Understand the Dynamics of a Global Commons," Artefactual Field Experiments 0029, The Field Experiments Website. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Juan Camilo Cardenas & Jeffrey P. Carpenter, 2005. "Experiments and Economic Development: Lessons from Field Labs in the Developing World," Middlebury College Working Paper Series 0505, Middlebury College, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  3. Juan Camilo Cardenas & Jeffrey Carpenter, 2003. "Pro-social Behavior in the Global Commons: A North-South Experiment," Middlebury College Working Paper Series 03-29, Middlebury College, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  4. Juan Camilo Cardenas, 2001. "How Do Groups Solve Local Commons Dilemmas? Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field," Artefactual Field Experiments 0016, The Field Experiments Website. [Downloadable!]
  5. Jeffery Carpenter & Juan Camilo Cardenas, 2006. "Behavioural Development Economics: Lessons from field labs in the developing world," Middlebury College Working Paper Series 0616, Middlebury College, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Steven D. Levitt & John A. List, 2008. "Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future," NBER Working Papers 14356, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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