The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Goone Beekman (), Stephen Cheung and Ian Levely ()
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Goone Beekman: Wageningen University, Development Economics Group, P.O. Box 8130, 6700 EW Wageningen, Netherlands
Ian Levely: Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Smetanovo nábreží 6, 111 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic

No 2015/16, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to con flict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock contest, and measure its effects upon cooperation using a multi-level public good game. We demonstrate that con flict increases cooperation within groups, while decreasing cooperation between groups. Moreover, we find that cooperation between groups increases in response to an increase in the effciency gains from cooperation only when the two groups have not previously interacted.

Keywords: within- and between-group cooperation; inter-group confl ict; group identity; multi-level public good experiment; Tullock contest; other-regarding preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D64 D74 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2015-06, Revised 2015-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-exp and nep-soc
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Journal Article: The effect of conflict history on cooperation within and between groups: Evidence from a laboratory experiment (2017)
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