We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning … substantial public information which increases the earnings of participants. In Experiment 2, participants have better … opportunities to learn about the strategies played by observed which amplifies the impact of altruism on observational learning …

too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …

deciding as a group member. We observe a strong dishonesty shift. This shift is mainly driven by communication within groups …

simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …

We consider an experiment with a version of the Battle of the Sexes game with two-sided private information, allowing a …

punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team … investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly …, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals …

prevalent in early and late stages of a learning process, whereas reason governs decisions in intermediate stages. Examples …

The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly … interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their … behavior in the long-run if and only if individuals distinguish social-learning settings and receive rich feedback after each …