A Research on Asymmetric Inter Group Cooperation--A Lab Experiment with Two Global Public Goods

DOI

10.2991/sschd-16.2016.100How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Extrinsic reciprocity, heterogeneous income, intergroup cooperation, multiple public goods, voluntary contributions mechanism.

Abstract

We accomplished a linear public goods experiment to study the effects of extrinsic reciprocity, via comparing a setting where subjects have the same income with a setting where they differ. We find that: 1) The contribution is higher in the two global public goods treatment than in the single global public goods experiment; 2) The subjects contribute more to the local public goods than to the global public goods; 3) When MPCR (marginal per capita return) is heterogeneous, members have a stronger will to contribute to the public goods; 4) In a certain range, the greater the gap between MPCR the more conducive to the overall public goods contribution. Our findings suggest that policy interventions may be necessary to improving intergroup cooperation with heterogeneous income and multiple public goods.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhan-Bing Huang
AU  - Xiao Ma
AU  - Ying Liu
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - A Research on Asymmetric Inter Group Cooperation--A Lab Experiment with Two Global Public Goods
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 507
EP  - 513
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-16.2016.100
DO  - 10.2991/sschd-16.2016.100
ID  - Huang2015/12
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