DATA for: Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods
Publication Date
February 3, 2023
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We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already exists and needs to be maintained. In four lab and online experiments (2,105), we document a robust asymmetry in preferences and perceptions in two incentive-equivalent versions of these public good problems. We find fewer conditional cooperators and more free riders in Maintenance than Provision, a difference that is replicable, stable, and reflected in perceptions of kindness. Incentivized control questions administered before gameplay reveal dilemma-specific misperceptions but controlling for them neither eliminates game-dependent conditional cooperation, nor differences in perceived kindness of others' cooperation. Thus, even when sharing the same game form, Maintenance and Provision are different social dilemmas that require separate behavioral analyses.
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ERC-AdG 101020453 PRINCIPLES
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University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Faculty of Social Sciences::School of Economics
Data type
Data in numerical form from laboratory and online experiments
Funders
European Research Council
Grant Number
ES/K002201/1
ERC-AdG 295707
ERC-AdG 101020453
Data collection method
Laboratory and online experiments
Resource languages
English
Publisher
The University of Nottingham
Date Issued
February 3, 2023
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