information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the … explanatory power of punishment is constrained by the visibility of cheating. …

the use of loaded language significantly reduces the incidence of bribery and increases the level of punishment …. Punishment of bribery leads to reduced bribery in future. The evidence suggests that this game captures essential features of a …

whether to engage in costly punishment of a free rider in a survey-based experiment with 1423 students from seven study areas …

We formally explore the idea that punishment of norm-breakers may be a vehicle for the older generation to teach … between past, present, and future punishment. Information about the past is important for youngsters, because the past shapes … the future. Reward-based mechanisms may also work and are welfare superior to punishment-based ones. However, reward …

cooperation and strategies, such as punishment and gossip, to promote cooperation in social dilemmas. In two studies involving …’ ability to distribute resources in a dictator game, and measure punishment, gossip, and cooperative behaviors in a multi …-round public goods game. Findings largely replicate previous research showing that punishment and gossip opportunities increase …

reconsiders the generality of both explanations. Using data from a public goods experiment with punishment, conducted by the …Experiments using the public goods game have repeatedly shown that in cooperative social environments, punishment makes … cooperation flourish, and withholding punishment makes cooperation collapse. In less cooperative social environments, where …

We examine the effectiveness of the individual-punishment mechanism in larger groups, comparing groups of four to … groups of 40 participants. We find that the individual punishment mechanism is remarkably robust when the marginal per capita … efficiency gains from the punishment mechanism are significantly higher in the 40-participant than in the four …

Theoretical and empirical studies have generally weighed the effect of peer punishment and pool punishment for … both cooperation and peer punishment. To make the commitment credible, we assume that those willing to commit have to make … punishment and the stability of pool punishment and that the replicator dynamics lead to transitions of different systems: pool …

We elicit individual-level peer-punishment types in a cooperation (social dilemma) and a coordination (weakest link …) problem. In line with previous literature, we find heterogeneity in peer-punishment in both environments. Comparing punishment … behavior across the two environments within subject, we observe a high degree of individuals’ punishment type stability …