Thankful or thankless: Does the past’s altruism increase the present’s public good contributions?
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Thankful or thankless : Does the past’s altruism increase the present’s public good contributions? / Abatayo, Anna Lou; Svenningsen, Lea Skræp; Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark.
In: Games, Vol. 11, No. 1, 6, 2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Thankful or thankless
T2 - Does the past’s altruism increase the present’s public good contributions?
AU - Abatayo, Anna Lou
AU - Svenningsen, Lea Skræp
AU - Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Two important aspects of global environmental problems are that (1) the actions of past generations affect the opportunities of the present, and (2) both in the past and the present generations, collaboration across different countries is needed to provide global public goods. In this paper, we study how these two aspects influence public good provisions by running simultaneous intercountry laboratory experiments using a modified public goods game in Denmark, Spain and Ghana. While the theoretical predictions of the modified public goods game do not differ from that of the standard public goods game, our experimental results show otherwise. Pooling across results from our Danish, Spanish and Ghanaian participants, we find that present-generation individuals contribute a higher percentage of their endowments when they have better institutions and a lower percentage of their endowments when they have higher endowments. We also find that present-generation individuals contribute less to transnational public goods only when their initial conditions have not been affected by past-generation contributions.
AB - Two important aspects of global environmental problems are that (1) the actions of past generations affect the opportunities of the present, and (2) both in the past and the present generations, collaboration across different countries is needed to provide global public goods. In this paper, we study how these two aspects influence public good provisions by running simultaneous intercountry laboratory experiments using a modified public goods game in Denmark, Spain and Ghana. While the theoretical predictions of the modified public goods game do not differ from that of the standard public goods game, our experimental results show otherwise. Pooling across results from our Danish, Spanish and Ghanaian participants, we find that present-generation individuals contribute a higher percentage of their endowments when they have better institutions and a lower percentage of their endowments when they have higher endowments. We also find that present-generation individuals contribute less to transnational public goods only when their initial conditions have not been affected by past-generation contributions.
U2 - 10.3390/g11010006
DO - 10.3390/g11010006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
JO - Games
JF - Games
SN - 2073-4336
IS - 1
M1 - 6
ER -
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