Date of Award
Spring 5-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Behavioral and Computational Economics
First Advisor
Laurence Iannaccone
Second Advisor
Stephen Rassenti
Third Advisor
David Porter
Abstract
People belong to many different groups, and few belong to the same network of groups. Moreover, people routinely reduce their involvement in dysfunctional groups while increasing involvement in those they find more attractive. The net effect can be an increase in overall cooperation and the partial isolation of free-riders, even if free-riders are never punished, excluded, or recognized. We test this conjecture with a multi-good extension of the standard finitely repeated public goods game. Our results from four treatments suggest that the multi-group setting indeed raises overall cooperation and dampens the impact of free-riders.
DOI
10.36837/chapman.000598
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Recommended Citation
Berman, A. S. (2024). A multi-group public goods game experiment Master's thesis, Chapman University]. Chapman University Digital Commons. https://doi.org/10.36837/chapman.000598