Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers in Economics,
University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics
No 541: Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries
Peter Martinsson (), Nam Pham-Khanh () and Clara Villegas-Palacio ()
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Peter Martinsson: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: P.O.Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG, Sweden
Nam Pham-Khanh: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: P.O.Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG, Sweden
Clara Villegas-Palacio: Dept of Geosciences and Environment,, Postal: Engineering Faculty, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellin, Colombia
Abstract: Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two developing countries with very high collectivism rating – Colombia and Vietnam – and compare our findings with those previously found in developed countries. We also investigate the effect of introducing disclosure of contribution on the distribution of contribution types and on the contribution itself. Overall, our experiments show that the distribution of contribution types remains unaffected by the disclosure of contributions and, on average, is similar both in the two countries and when compared with previous findings with the exception of proportion of free-riders.
Keywords: Conditional cooperation; Disclosure; Experiment; Public Goods.
18 pages, September 25, 2012
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