Data in Brief (Dec 2019)

Public good experiment data of a water game framed to Rajasthan/India

  • Thomas Falk,
  • Shalander Kumar,
  • Srinivasa Srigiri

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27

Abstract

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This dataset belongs to a framed economic field experiment conducted in 2016 in Bhilwara district in Rajasthan state in India. A public good game was framed as dam management challenge. We made incentivized payments based on the game earnings. The data are organized as a panel defined by players and experiment rounds. The dataset contains the experiment decisions in different phases of the experiment as well as socio-economic variables of the anonymized players. The data can be accessed through the Dataverse of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) under the following link: https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/MFT8ZD. The data article is related to the research article Falk et al. [2] on “Experimental games for developing institutional capacity to manage common water infrastructure in India”. Keywords: Economic field experiment, Capacity development, Infrastructure maintenance, Communication, Collective action