Research Article

Walk the Talk? The Effect of Voting and Excludability in Public Goods Experiments

Table 5

The effect of personal traits and major on individual contributions in Experiment 2(mixed effects models, maximum likelihood estimation).

VariableModel 7Model 8Model 9
Dependent variableIndividual contribution

CONSTANT
EXCLUDABLE PG (YES= 1) −0.005 −0.005 −0.005
PLAYING XPG FIRST (YES= 1)0.439
ROUNDS 1–10 (YES= 1)
ROUND
FEMALE (YES= 1)
ECONOMICS(YES= 1)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (YES= 1)
EMPATHY
INTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL
TRUST0.070
Akaike Info Criterion120151197012017
Number of obs.2400 (random effect for 24 groups)

significant at 1% level; at 5%; at 10%.