This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is independent of its proposer …, cooperation is lower when the enforcement of punishment requires approval from an independent third party. Our data show that the … promoting cooperation when antisocial punishment proposals are rare. …

cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as well as the importance … of income distribution in team cooperation. In a repeated public good experiment, conditions vary among different … that without punishment, strong identity can counteract the negative impact of endowment heterogeneity on cooperation …

find that aggregate cooperation is higher in both the voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) and punishment treatments for …

tacitly agree on the norm to be enforced, even if this leads to large payoff differences. Our results also emphasize the role …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … implicated parties are allowed to punish each other, both the cooperation rate and the earnings are lower when the enforcement of …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

We explore the effect of income inequality and social attitudes on the cooperation and sanctioning in nine South …