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

Table 3.

Cooperation dynamics (no punishment)

Contribution to the public good (no punishment)
Laboratory MTurk Pooled
Period −0.401** −0.503*** −0.485***
(0.204) (0.094) (0.085)
Final period −2.826 −1.316 −1.600**
(1.941) (0.827) (0.757)
Mean peer contribution in t−1 0.953*** 1.043*** 1.027***
(0.125) (0.060) (0.054)
MTurk 0.759
(0.778)
Constant −0.830 −0.006 −0.696
(1.674) (1.237) (0.931)
N 648 2232 2880
F 29.05 163.74 177.16

Left-censored Tobit estimation. ‘Period’ is period number; ‘Mean peer contribution in t−1′ is the average contribution of the other members in the group in t−1; ‘MTurk’ is a dummy for the MTurk sample. Robust standard errors clustered on groups

p < 0.1; ** p < 0.05; *** p < 0.01