simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …Altruistic punishment is a fundamental driver for cooperation in human interactions. In this paper, we expand our … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility …

This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative … consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can …

engage in punishment. Analyzing the interplay between types in an additional experiment, we show that pro-social punishers … punishment as well as their relative importance for mitigating social dilemmas. Using a novel strategy-method approach we … identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along …

unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction …