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SUBMITTER: Hauge KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6431150 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hauge Karen Evelyn KE Brekke Kjell Arne KA Nyborg Karine K Lind Jo Thori JT
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180730 12
In four public-good game experiments, we study self-sorting as a means to facilitate cooperation in groups. When individuals can choose to join groups precommitted to charity, such groups sustain cooperation toward the group's local public good. By eliciting subjects' conditional contribution profiles, we find that subjects who prefer the charity groups have higher average conditional contribution levels but do not differ with respect to the slope of their profiles. The majority of subjects in b ...[more]