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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement
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| Title: | Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement |
| Authors: | Kocher Martin
Visser Martine
Martinsson Peter |
| Issue Date: | 2009-10-19 |
| Publication type: | report |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Papers in Economics
385 |
| Keywords: | Cooperation
public goods
punishment
experiment
social capital
South Africa |
| Abstract: | Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have b... moreeen documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark differences in both dimensions can exist even within the same town. For this end, a unique data set was created, based on public goods experiments conducted in South Africa. Most of the group differences can, however, be explained by variables accounting for social capital and social environment, such as trust or household violence. |
| ISSN: | 1403-2465 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/21261 |
| Appears in Collections: | Working papers
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