In a two-stage public goods experiment, we study the framing effect due to the adoption of a cultural context. Our results show a slight increase in the allocations of subjects’ endowments to the cultural good when the cultural context is implemented in the laboratory. In particular, in one treatment, the framing effect has a strong impact in the last two periods only. JEL Classification: A13, ...

The financial support of the National Science Foundation and the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University are gratefully acknowledged. I wish to thank many coauthors for sharing their insights about political economy experiments. I am especially indebted to Richard McKelvey. The editors provided helpful comments on an earlier draft.