The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation
We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias, or through a mechanism whereby the decision to not particip...
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| author | Nosenzo, Daniele Tufano, Fabio |
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| description | We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias, or through a mechanism whereby the decision to not participate can be used as a threat against free-riders. We examine the effectiveness of these mechanisms in a one-shot public goods experiment. Voluntary participation has a positive effect on provision only through the threat of non-participation. Assortative selection of interaction partners seems to play a minor role in our setting, whereas the threat of non-participation is a powerful force to discipline free-riding. |
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| spelling | nottingham-450652020-05-04T19:55:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45065/ The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation Nosenzo, Daniele Tufano, Fabio We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias, or through a mechanism whereby the decision to not participate can be used as a threat against free-riders. We examine the effectiveness of these mechanisms in a one-shot public goods experiment. Voluntary participation has a positive effect on provision only through the threat of non-participation. Assortative selection of interaction partners seems to play a minor role in our setting, whereas the threat of non-participation is a powerful force to discipline free-riding. Elsevier 2017-10 Article PeerReviewed Nosenzo, Daniele and Tufano, Fabio (2017) The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 142 . pp. 307-319. ISSN 0167-2681 collective action; cooperation; voluntary participation; experiment http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268117301877 doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.07.009 doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.07.009 |
| spellingShingle | collective action; cooperation; voluntary participation; experiment Nosenzo, Daniele Tufano, Fabio The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation |
| title | The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation |
| title_full | The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation |
| title_fullStr | The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation |
| title_short | The effect of voluntary participation on cooperation |
| title_sort | effect of voluntary participation on cooperation |
| topic | collective action; cooperation; voluntary participation; experiment |
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