Do what (you think) the rich will do: Inequality and belief heterogeneity in public good provision

Andrea Martinangeli

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021, vol. 83, issue C

Abstract: Beliefs about others’ cooperativeness are among the strongest determinants of cooperative behaviours. Beliefs about different others, however, are not necessarily uniform, nor necessarily related to past behaviours: Different expectations about different others might solely originate from differences in observed individual characteristics. Finally, not all such beliefs need drive conditional behaviour alike.

Keywords: Belief formation; Conditional cooperation; Experiment; Inequality; Public goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Working Paper: Do What (You Think) the Rich Will Do: Inequality and Belief Heterogeneity in Public Good Provision (2017)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2021.102364

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