Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes

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Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes. / Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt; Hansen, Lars Gårn; Wengström, Erik Roland.

In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 158, 2019, p. 416-427.

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Fosgaard, TR, Hansen, LG & Wengström, ER 2019, 'Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 158, pp. 416-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.12.010

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Fosgaard, T. R., Hansen, L. G., & Wengström, E. R. (2019). Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 158, 416-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.12.010

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Fosgaard TR, Hansen LG, Wengström ER. Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 2019;158:416-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.12.010

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Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt ; Hansen, Lars Gårn ; Wengström, Erik Roland. / Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes. In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 2019 ; Vol. 158. pp. 416-427.

Bibtex

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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 not linked to political attitudes. In an economically equivalent version, in which subjects take from a public good, left-wingers cooperate significantly more than subjects to the right of the political spectrum. This difference is to some extent caused by differences in beliefs and cooperation preferences but a substantial part is left unexplained, indicating that left wingers find cooperating under this institution more attractive than right wingers do.",
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