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Last Published February 22, 2023 09:03 AM August 02, 2024 08:12 AM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date June 29, 2022
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 194
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 194
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 194
Public Data URL https://osf.io/8us67/
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files Yes
Program Files URL https://osf.io/8us67/
Data Collection Completion Date June 29, 2022
Is data available for public use? Yes
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Paper Abstract We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second movers are conditionally cooperative (i.e., cooperate if and only if the first mover cooperates) in all eight games. Instead, most second-movers change strategies between games. The rate of conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from defecting is higher. This pattern is consistent with both social preference models and stochastic choice models. To explore which model explains our findings we employ a second study to jointly estimate noise and social preference parameters at the individual level. The majority of our subjects place significantly positive weight on others’ payoffs, supporting the underlying role of social preferences in conditional cooperation.
Paper Citation Baader, M., Gächter, S., Lee, K., & Sefton, M. (2022). Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation.
Paper URL https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2022/working-paper/social-preferences-and-variability-conditional-cooperation
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