TY - JOUR
T1 - From locality to continent
T2 - A comment on the generalization of an experimental study
AU - Kamei, Kenju
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported here was supported by the Danish research council (FSE) for financial support under project title “Cooperation and Institutions.” I thank Louis Putterman and Jean-Robert Tyran for allowing me to use data collected in Putterman et al. (2010) and Kamei et al. (2011) for this paper. I also thank the referee and editor whose suggestions helped me to improve the paper substantially.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - Kocher et al. (2008) find that conditional willingness to contribute to a public good is considerably stronger at a U.S. research site, Appalachian State University, than at sites in Europe and Asia. I find that the willingness at Brown University, in Rhode Island, is not significantly different from that in Europe and Asia in Kocher et al. (2008). Clear evidence on significantly different demographic statistics between these two U.S. research sites is provided. This implies that in the experimental study of societies, or more generally in empirical studies, we need exercise care to generalize from results at a specific research site to geographically broader conclusions.
AB - Kocher et al. (2008) find that conditional willingness to contribute to a public good is considerably stronger at a U.S. research site, Appalachian State University, than at sites in Europe and Asia. I find that the willingness at Brown University, in Rhode Island, is not significantly different from that in Europe and Asia in Kocher et al. (2008). Clear evidence on significantly different demographic statistics between these two U.S. research sites is provided. This implies that in the experimental study of societies, or more generally in empirical studies, we need exercise care to generalize from results at a specific research site to geographically broader conclusions.
KW - Cooperation
KW - Experiment
KW - Public goods
KW - Social dilemma
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U2 - 10.1016/j.socec.2011.12.005
DO - 10.1016/j.socec.2011.12.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84855895078
SN - 2214-8043
VL - 41
SP - 207
EP - 210
JO - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
JF - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
IS - 2
ER -