Conditional cooperation: a natural good experiment for a small Spanish city

Abstract

This dissertation replicates a variant of the strategy-method experiment, developed to measure attitude towards cooperation in a one-shot public goods game. Data were collected from 44 different citizens of Vila-real. In this case, compared to other studies, the natural good was well-known by subjects. And is introduced a questionnaire in the experiment to elicit preferences and information from the subjects about the public good. Results show that, the distribution of types of subjects in Vila-real is similar to other studies, but in this case there are less non-co-operator and more co-operator people. Also is find that, is possible to determine if there are more or less probability that a subject could be classified as a type of subject depending on the answers to the questionnaire (specially questions about sentimental, legitimacy and motivational factors).