institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India … namely Central, Northern, Southern, Eastern, North-East and Western. The result suggests that the performance of credit … recovery has been low in north-eastern states and high in northern and southern states. Recovery performance of credit is …

cooperation than male students. …

temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …

of cooperation during war, we find that individual cooperativeness robustly increases with the length of time a person …

initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …

different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …. Specifically, fishermen and traders, who interact in more competitive environments are significantly less cooperative than the coop …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … change their cooperative behaviour in response to religious festivals. Most of the differences can, however, be explained by …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … externality a group's performance imposes on other groups. However, it has the disadvantage that incentives to outperform others … are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find …