Can experimental measures of sensitivity to social pressure predict public good contribution?

Daniel Zizzo and Piers Fleming

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 111, issue 3, 239-242

Abstract: Public good contributions may be affected by the social demand to contribute that is implicit in them. Sensitivity to social pressure predicts behavior in paired dictator and money burning games; the evidence for effects on public good contribution is mixed.

Keywords: Social; pressure; Experimenter; demand; effects; Public; goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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