An experimental look at trust, bargaining, and public goods in fishing communities
Rojas, Cristian A., Cinner, Joshua, Lau, Jacqueline, Ruano-Chamorro, Cristina, Contreras-Drey, Francisco J., and Gelcich, Stefan (2021) An experimental look at trust, bargaining, and public goods in fishing communities. Scientific Reports, 11. 20798.
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Abstract
Pro-social behavior is crucial to the sustainable governance of common-pool resources such as fisheries. Here, we investigate how key socioeconomic characteristics influence fishers’ pro-social and bargaining behavior in three types of experimental economic games (public goods, trust, and trade) conducted in fishing associations in Chile. Our games revealed high levels of cooperation in the public goods game, a high degree of trust, and that sellers rather than buyers had more bargaining power, yet these results were strongly influenced by participants’ socioeconomic characteristics. Specifically, gender, having a secondary income source, age, and being the main income provider for the household all had a relationship to multiple game outcomes. Our results highlight that engagement in pro-social behaviors such as trust and cooperation can be influenced by people’s socioeconomic context.
| Item ID: | 69917 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Keywords: | Environmental economics; Environmental social sciences; Psychology and behaviour |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Funders: | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
| Projects and Grants: | ARC FT160100047, ARC CE140100020 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2022 22:30 |
| FoR Codes: | 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4406 Human geography > 440604 Environmental geography @ 20% 38 ECONOMICS > 3801 Applied economics > 380102 Behavioural economics @ 80% |
| SEO Codes: | 15 ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK > 1599 Other economic framework > 159902 Ecological economics @ 100% |
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