Framing effects in public good games: Choices or externalities?
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2019-03-21
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Elsevier
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Abstract
We disentangle the effects of choice (give vs. take) and externality (positive vs. negative) framing of decisions in isomorphic and payoff-equivalent experimental public good games. We find that, at the aggregate level, neither frame affects group contributions. At the individual level, the Take choice frame leads to greater free-riding, and also to somewhat higher contributions, i.e., to more extreme contribution behaviour.
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Keywords
isomorphic, public good, experiment, framing
Citation
Cartwright, E. and Ramalingam, A. (2019) Framing effects in public good games: Choices or externalities?. Economics Letters, 179, pp. 42-45