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 not linked to political attitudes. In an economically equivalent version, in which subjects take from a public good, left-wingers cooperate significantly more than subjects to the right of the political spectrum. This difference is to some extent caused by differences in beliefs and cooperation preferences but a substantial part is left unexplained, indicating that left wingers find cooperating under this institution more attractive than right wingers do.
Department/s
- Department of Economics
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Pages
416-427
Publication/Series
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume
158
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Economics
Keywords
- Cooperation
- Experiment
- Political ideology
- Simulation
- Social dilemma
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0167-2681