COMPARING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF REGULATION AND PRO‐SOCIAL EMOTIONS TO ENHANCE COOPERATION: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM FISHING COMMUNITIES IN COLOMBIA |
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| Authors: | MARIA CLAUDIA LOPEZ JAMES J MURPHY JOHN M SPRAGGON JOHN K STRANLUND |
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| Institution: | 1. Lopez: Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia;2. Visiting Scholar, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408. Phone 571‐3208320 ext. 4834, Fax 571‐3208156, E‐mail mlopez@javeriana.edu.co;3. Murphy: Rasmuson Chair of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK 99508;4. Adjunct Professor, Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003. Phone 1‐907‐786‐1936, Fax 1‐907‐786‐4415, E‐mail murphy@uaa.alaska.edu;5. Spraggon: Associate Professor, Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003. Phone 1‐413‐545‐6651, Fax 1‐41 3‐545‐5853, E‐mail john.spraggon@gmail.com |
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| Abstract: | This paper presents the results from a series of framed field experiments conducted in fishing communities off the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The goal is to investigate the relative effectiveness of exogenous regulatory pressure and pro‐social emotions in promoting cooperative behavior in a public goods context. The random public revelation of an individual's contribution and its consequences for the rest of the group leads to significantly higher public good contributions and social welfare than regulatory pressure, even under regulations that are designed to motivate fully efficient contributions. (JEL C93, H41, Q20, Q28) |
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