Conditional cooperation and voluntary contributions to public goods

By C. Keser, Frans van Winden. 2000

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Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts (2013, neutral): “These results support our second hypothesis.”
Conditional cooperation: Behavioral regularities from the lab and the field and their policy implications (2006, methodology): “In most experiments, " Partners " contribute more than " Strangers " (see Keser and van Winden 2000, and Andreoni and Croson 1998 for an overview).”
Pro-social behavior in a natural setting (2004, background): “3 See, for example, the experiments by Keser and van Winden (2000) , Sonnemans et al. (1999), and Croson (1998).”
Indirect Reciprocity in Cyclical Networks - An Experimental Study - (2005, background): “…public goods experiments find that partners, on average, contribute significantly more than strangers (cf., Croson, 1996; Sonnemans et al., 1999; Keser & van Winden, 2000), albeit the evidence regarding the (dis)similarity in behavior between partners and strangers is far from being conclusive…”