We comprehensively investigate misperceptions about pro-social behavior and the extent to which punishment and rewarding is under- or overestimated in laboratory experiments. Our games and treatments cover a large range of decision environments, in which there are different (i) trade-offs (e.g.,...

The role of the market in mitigating and mediating various forms of behavior is perhaps the central issue facing behavioral economics today. This study designs a field experiment that is explicitly linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine whether, and to what extent, social...