Did the devil make them do it? The effects of religion in public goods and trust games

Kyklos

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-175

  Anderson, Lisa ^a   Mellor, Jennifer ^a   Milyo, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; PUBLIC GOODS; RELIGION;

EID: 77954358672     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2010.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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