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House money effects in public good experiments: Comment

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We reconsider evidence from experiments that claim to show that using “house money” in standard public goods experiments has no effect on behavior. We show that it does have an effect when one examines the data using appropriate statistical methods that consider individual-level responses and account for the error structure of the panel data.

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  1. Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

    Glenn W. Harrison

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JEL Classification D7 · C92

I am grateful for comments from two referees and an editor. All data and statistical code are available for public access at the ExLab Digital Library located at http://exlab.bus.ucf.edu.

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Harrison, G.W. House money effects in public good experiments: Comment. Exp Econ 10, 429–437 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-006-9145-x

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