How Do Prisoners Solve Their Dilemma? An Experiment

How do actual prisoners solve their proverbial dilemma? In a lab experiment, conducted in a German prison for male juvenile offenders, we find that prisoners are no less cooperative than students in a symmetric two-person prisoner's dilemma. Using data from post-experimental tests, we explain this behavior with efficiency seeking, while our data do not support that choices are caused by inequity aversion

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Chmura, Thorsten
Other Persons:	Engel, Christoph (contributor) ; Englerth, Markus (contributor)
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Experiment \| Gefangenendilemma \| Prisoner's dilemma \| Strafvollzug \| Penal system

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