Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Toke R. Fosgaard
Author-Name-First: Toke R.
Author-Name-Last: Fosgaard
Author-Email: tf@ifro.ku.dk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Author-Name:  Lars G. Hansen
Author-Name-First: Lars G.
Author-Name-Last: Hansen
Author-Email: lgh@ifro.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: Cooperation, framing and political attitudes
Abstract: This paper shows that political attitudes are linked to cooperative behavior in an incentivized experiment with a large sample randomly drawn from the Danish population. However, this relationship depends on the way the experiment is framed. In the standard game in which subjects give to a public good, contributions are the same regardless of political attitudes. In an economically equivalent version, in which subjects take from a public good, left-wingers cooperate significantly more than subjects in the middle or to the right of the political spectrum. Through simulation techniques we find that this difference in the framing effect across political point of views is to some extent explained by differences in beliefs and basic cooperation preferences.
Length: 75 pages
Creation-Date:  2017-03
File-URL: http://okonomi.foi.dk/workingpapers/WPpdf/WP2017/IFRO_WP_2017_02.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 2017/02
Classification-JEL: H41, C90, D03
Keywords: Cooperation, Social Dilemma, Political Ideology, Experiment, Simulation
Handle: RePEc:foi:wpaper:2017_02