ECIN Replication Package for "Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons: a replication and an extension to income inequality"

Social cooperation often requires
individuals to exhibit restraint for the greater good, incurring costs for
maintaining public goods or establishing them through generosity. Will
cooperative behaviors differ between maintenance and provision dilemmas? We
replicate Gächter et al.'s (2017) study and find that low cooperation is more
likely in maintenance than provision scenarios among a non-student sample with
reciprocity being the main reason behind cooperative differences. A separate
experiment reports similar effects in the case of income inequality, also
suggesting dilemma-specific reciprocity is vital in averting the 'tragedy of
the commons'. Our findings reinforce and broaden previous conclusions in the
literature.