Religion and cooperation in a public goods experiment

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-60

  Anderson, Lisa R ^a   Mellor, Jennifer M ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Public goods experiment; Religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 69349101247     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.05.016     Document Type: Article

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