The role of egalitarian motives in altruistic punishment

Tim Johnson, Christopher T. Dawes, James H. Fowler, Richard McElreath and Oleg Smirnov

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 102, issue 3, 192-194

Abstract: We conduct experiments in which subjects participate in both a game that measures preferences for income equality and a public goods game involving costly punishment. The results indicate that individuals who care about equality are those who are most willing to punish free-riders in public goods games.

Keywords: Experiments; Public; goods; games; Altruistic; punishment; Egalitarian; motives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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