When fairness is not enough: The disproportionate contributions of the poor in a collective action problem.

ABSTRACT: Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations, people face a dilemma about making individually costly but collectively beneficial contributions to the common good. Understanding which factors influence people's willingness to make these contributions is vital for the design of policies and institutions that support the attainment of collective goals. In this study, we investigate how inequalities, and different causes of inequalities, impact individual-level behavior and group-level outcomes. First, we find that what people judged to be fair was not enough to solve the collective action problem: if they acted a

SUBMITTER: Malthouse E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10585937 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature