Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Toke Fosgaard
Author-Name-First: Toke
Author-Name-Last: Fosgaard
Author-Email: tf@foi.ku.dk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Author-Name:  Lars Gårn Hansen
Author-Name-First: Lars Gårn 
Author-Name-Last: Hansen
Author-Email: lgh@foi.ku.dk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Author-Name:  Erik Wengström
Author-Name-First: Erik 
Author-Name-Last: Wengström
Author-Email: erik.wengstrom@nek.lu.se
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Lund University
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Title: Understanding the Nature of Cooperation Variability
Abstract: We investigate framing effects in a large-scale public good experiment. We measure indicators of explanations previously proposed in the literature, which when combined with the large sample, enable us to estimate a structural model of framing effects. The model captures potential causal effects and the behavioral heterogeneity of cooperation variability. We find that framing only has a small effect on the average level of cooperation but a substantial effect on behavioral heterogeneity and we show that this can be explained almost exclusively by a corresponding change in the heterogeneity of beliefs about other subjects’ behavior. Preferences are on the other hand stable between frames.
Length: 24 pages
Creation-Date:  2013-03
File-URL: http://okonomi.foi.dk/workingpapers/WPpdf/WP2013/IFRO_WP_2013_4.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 2013/4
Classification-JEL: C13, C71, C93, H41
Keywords: Framing, Public Goods, Internet Experiment, Simulation
Handle: RePEc:foi:wpaper:2013_4