Erik Wengström
Professor, Director of Doctoral studies, Department of Economics
Cooperation, Framing and Political Attitudes
Author
Summary, in English
This paper shows that political attitudes are linked to cooperative behavior in an incentivized experiment with a large sample randomly drawn from the Danish population. However, this relationship depends on the way the experiment is framed. In the standard game in which subjects give to a public good, contributions are the same regardless of political attitudes. In an economically equivalent version, in which subjects take from a public good, left-wingers cooperate significantly more than subjects in the middle or to the right of the political spectrum. Through simulation techniques we find that this difference in the framing effect across political point of views is to some extent explained by differences in beliefs and basic cooperation preferences.
Department/s
- Department of Economics
Publishing year
2017-03-02
Language
English
Publication/Series
Working Papers
Volume
2017
Issue
4
Full text
Document type
Working paper
Publisher
Department of Economics, Lund University
Topic
- Economics
- Applied Psychology
Keywords
- cooperation
- social dilemma
- political Ideology
- experiment
- simulation
- H41
- C90
- D03
Status
Published