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. 2017 May 9;21(1):99–131. doi: 10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2

Table 2.

Cooperation dynamics

Contributions to the public good
No punishment Punishment
Laboratory MTurk Pooled Laboratory MTurk Pooled
Period −0.900*** −1.074*** −1.037*** 1.139 0.514* 0.682**
(0.309) (0.187) (0.160) (0.710) (0.289) (0.282)
Final period −3.400 −2.292** −2.512*** −10.203** −4.184** −5.795***
(2.253) (0.958) (0.881) (4.881) (1.688) (1.797)
MTurk 5.421*** 4.193
(1.867) (4.904)
Constant 10.470*** 17.046*** 11.402*** 25.980*** 35.272*** 29.601***
(1.592) (0.624) (1.650) (3.898) (3.792) (4.232)
N 720 2480 3200 720 2480 3200
F 8.75 33.66 34.45 2.19 3.12 3.75

Tobit estimation with left-censoring for ‘No punishment’ and right-censoring for ‘Punishment’. ‘Period’ is period number; ‘Final period’ is a dummy for last period; ‘MTurk’ is a dummy for the MTurk sample. Robust standard errors clustered on groups

p < 0.1; ** p < 0.05; *** p < 0.01