Asymmetric effects of social and economic incentives on cooperation in real effort based public goods games.

ABSTRACT: Many practitioners as well as researchers explore promoting environmentally conscious behavior in the context of public goods systems. Numerous experimental studies revealed various types of incentives to increase cooperation on public goods. There is ample evidence that monetary and non-monetary incentives, such as donations, have a positive effect on cooperation in public goods games that exceeds fully rational and optimal economic decision making. Despite an accumulation of these studies, in the typical setting of these experiments participants decide on an allocation of resources to a public pool, but they never exert actual effort. However, in reality, we often observe that players' real effort is required in these public goods game situations. Therefore, more analysis is needed to dr

SUBMITTER: Hackel J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8046186 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature