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Economists free ride, does anyone else? Experiments on the provision of public goods, IV

Gerald Marwell; Ruth E. Ames · Journal of Public Economics 15(3), 295–310 · 1981

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Gerald Marwell; Ruth E. Ames
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DOI 10.1016/0047-2727(81)90013-X
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedIn public-goods experiments, Fehr and Gächter found that cooperation declined over repeated rounds without sanctions but rose substantially when participants could punish free-riders at a cost to themselves.