effects of participation in markets on non-market activities requiring cooperation. In our setup, market interaction takes …-Strangers. We compare the efficiency of cooperation with and without market experience controlling for earnings, allowing us to … effect on cooperation efficiency in Market-Partners, that is among those who had to compete with each other on on the same …

, the classic cooperation game. In the prisoners' dilemma, the first best outcome is attainable, but cannot be sustained as …

the opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who have different …. Conscientiousness and Agreeableness have a natural, significant but transitory effect on cooperation rates …

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory … cooperation. We then study the effect on cooperation of exogenously varying rates of entry. Slow growth yields higher cooperation … endogenous growth generally also produces high cooperation levels, growth stalls at intermediate group sizes, leaving potential …

-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a … substantial influence on the extent of cooperation, in addition to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences identified …

of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation … finding is that in our setting conditional cooperation is not a strong enough force to increase contribution levels. Although … cooperation and puts some doubt on the idea that it is crucial in overcoming social dilemma problems …