Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers
| Autor: | Marco Fabbri |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Fabbri M. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Research design
STRESS media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology MARKETS CULTURE Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) In-group Favoritism Material Security Hypothesis Cultural Evolution Material Security Hypothesi Endogeneity Parochialism Land tenure Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common Public economics Multilevel Public Goods Game Ingroups and outgroups Discretion Lab-in-the-field Experiment EVOLUTION Variation (linguistics) SIZE Key (cryptography) Business TRUST Institutional quality |
| Zdroj: | Fabbri, M 2022, ' Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers ', Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 53-70 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.11.003 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.11.003 |
| Popis: | Humans display a puzzling cross-population variation in the ability to cooperate with out-group members. One hypothesis is that impartial institutions substituting kith and kin as risk-buffering providers would favor the expansion of cooperative networks. Here I propose a research design that overcomes the endogeneity between institutions and preferences, making it possible to isolate the causal effects of institutional quality on out-group cooperation. I study a land tenure reform implemented as a randomized control-trial in hundreds of Beninese villages. The reform reduces the village community's discretion in regulating members' access to land by granting formal legal protection to individual rights-holders. Using a lab-in-the-field incentivized experiment (N = 576), I show that the reform significantly increases participants' cooperation with anonymous strangers from other villages. The results illustrate how humans' investments in in-group and out-group relationships are sensitive to cost-benefit evaluations, and emphasize that the institutional environment is a key driver of large-scale human cooperation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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