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Playing with the Good Guys: A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

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  • Brekke, Kjell Arne

    () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)

  • Hauge, Karen Evely

    () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)

  • Lind, Jo Thori

    () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)

  • Nyborg, Karine

    () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)

Abstract

In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start o high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will selfselect into groups committed to charitable giving. Testing this experimentally, we let subjects choose between two group types, where one type donate a xed amount to a charity. Contributions in these groups stayed high, whereas contributions in the other groups showed the well known declining pattern. One implication is that corporate social responsibility may attract more responsible employees.

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Paper provided by Oslo University, Department of Economics in its series Memorandum with number 08/2009.

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Length: 37 pages
Date of creation: 17 Apr 2009
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:osloec:2009_008

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Keywords: Altruism; conditional cooperation; self-selection;

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