Welfare Implications of Peer Punishment in Unequal Societies

We show that peer sanctioning increases cooperation in public goods experiments more in unequally endowed groups than in equally endowed groups. Punishment results in a redistribution of wealth from high to low endowment players within groups. <p>

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Year of publication:	2006-01-31
Authors:	Visser, Martine
Institutions:	Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan
Subject:	Inequality \| cooperation \| punishment \| public goods \| welfare and poverty \| social norms

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Series:	Working Papers in Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Working Papers in Economics Number 218 7 pages
Classification:	C90 - Design of Experiments. General ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; H41 - Public Goods ; I30 - Welfare and Poverty. General ; Q20 - Renewable Resources and Conservation; Environmental Management. General ; Z13 - Social Norms and Social Capital
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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