Identification of individuals and groups in a public goods experiment

Sven Christens, Astrid Dannenberg and Florian Sachs

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2019, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we experimentally investigate whether this finding holds true when decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. We distinguish between groups in which members can discuss face-to-face to reach a decision and groups in which members communicate via computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however, we only find a small and temporary effect of identification, irrespective of the type of communication.

Keywords: Public goods experiment; Cooperation; Group decisions; Face-to-face communication; Computer chat communication; Identification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 C92 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2019.06.010

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