How economic rewards affect cooperation reconsidered

John Kagel and Dan R. Schley

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 121, issue 1, 124-127

Abstract: Recent studies suggest that payoffs in cents, compared to dollars, produce less defection in a repeated prisoner’s dilemma game. We are unable to replicate these findings with conventional economic procedures or in a direct replication.

Keywords: Numeric effects; Repeated prisoner dilemma games; Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 C7 C9 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.07.012

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