. A comparison with play in a standard version of the game suggests, that the common claim that decision errors due to … learning cannot generate the kind of contribution dynamics commonly attributed to the existence of conditional cooperators. We … learning. -- voluntary contribution mechanism ; public goods experiments ; learning ; limited information ; confusion …

. The results show that reinforcement learning leads to dynamics similar to those observed in standard public goods games … explained by reinforcement learning. According to our estimates, learning only accounts for 41 percent of the decay in …, differ strongly from the learning dynamics, while a learning model estimated from the limited information treatment tracks …