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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2011

This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods

DeAngelo, Gregory - 2018

Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of sanctions imposed, but this research almost always...

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Anger Management : Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Gee, Laura - 2017

The ability to punish free-riders can increase the provision of public goods. However, sometimes the benefit of increased public good provision is outweighed by the costs of punishments. One reason a group may punish to the point that net welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger...

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Voting with Feet : Community Choice in Social Dilemmas

Gürerk, Özgür - 2010

Economic and social interactions often take place in open communities but the dynamics of the community choice process and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We experimentally investigate community choice in social dilemmas. Participants repeatedly choose...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Markussen, Thomas - 2012

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …

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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

Fischbacher, Urs - 2006

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are types of players...

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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan - 2011

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...

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Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods : Experimental Evidence

Corazzini, Luca - 2019

When multiple charities, social programs and community projects simultaneously vie for funding, donors risk miscoordinating their contributions leading to an inefficient distribution of funding across projects. Community chests and other intermediary organizations facilitate coordination among...

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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma

Solda, Alice - 2018

Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and whether this length is imposed exogenously or results from a vote. We show that people are...

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