University Innsbruck Working Papers Economics and Statistics, 2007-02
Number of pages
9
Publisher
Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde
Organisations
Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract
We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the U.S.A. than anywhere else.