Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment

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DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00394-9zbMath0999.91001OpenAlexW3125314754WikidataQ56764965 ScholiaQ56764965MaRDI QIDQ5941248

Urs Fischbacher, Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter

Publication date: 20 August 2001

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(01)00394-9




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