The role of egalitarian motives in altruistic punishment

被引：53

作者：

Johnson, Tim ^{[2
,3
]}

Dawes, Christopher T. ^{[4
]}

Fowler, James H. ^{[4
]}

McElreath, Richard ^{[5
]}

Smirnov, Oleg ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Polit Sci, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA

[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Palo Alto, CA 94305 USA

[3] Max Planck Inst Human Dev, Ctr Adapt Behav & Cognit, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

[4] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Polit Sci, San Diego, CA 92093 USA

[5] Univ Utah, Dept Anthropol, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA

来源：

ECONOMICS LETTERS | 2009年 / 102卷 / 03期

关键词：

Experiments; Public goods games; Altruistic punishment; Egalitarian motives;

D O I：

10.1016/j.econlet.2009.01.003

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We conduct experiments in which subjects participate in both a game that measures preferences for income equality and a public goods game involving costly punishment. The results indicate that individuals who care about equality are those who are most willing to punish free-riders in public goods games. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：192 / 194

页数：3

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