Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries

Peter Martinsson, Nam Pham-Khanh () and Clara Villegas-Palacio
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Nam Pham-Khanh: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: P.O.Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG, Sweden

No 541, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two developing countries with very high collectivism rating – Colombia and Vietnam – and compare our findings with those previously found in developed countries. We also investigate the effect of introducing disclosure of contribution on the distribution of contribution types and on the contribution itself. Overall, our experiments show that the distribution of contribution types remains unaffected by the disclosure of contributions and, on average, is similar both in the two countries and when compared with previous findings with the exception of proportion of free-riders.

Keywords: Conditional cooperation; Disclosure; Experiment; Public Goods. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2012-09-25
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-dev, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-gth and nep-sea
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Published as Martinsson, Peter, Nam Pham-Khanh and Clara Villegas-Palacio, 'Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries' in Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, pages 148-155.

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