TY - RPRT AU - Bar-El, Ronen AU - Tobol, Yossef TI - Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis PY - 2013/Mar/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 7307 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7307 AB - We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to previous literature, free riding decreases over rounds and the end-game effect is reversed. KW - end-game effect KW - public goods experiment KW - free-riding ER -