We conducted a field experiment on the Internet and investigated the participants’ belief updating in an individual learning environment where they observe a sequence of private signals and in a social learning environment where they observe a sequence of other people’s actions. We observed...

We compare male and female behavior in Japan and Canada in the context of a threshold public goods game with both a strong free-riding equilibrium and many socially efficient threshold equilibria. Although higher rewards produce higher contributions, neither culture nor gender has any...