This paper documents a field experiment on how peer recognition affects cooperation in the workplace. Using an online public goods game in a large financial corporation in Colombia, we show that both public and private recognition have a significant within-subjects effect on employee voluntary...

Although social capital has been considered of the utmost importance for development and poverty alleviation by governments and NGOs, it remains a complex and elusive concept. Different dimensions of social capital form part of the puzzle: cooperation is an individual other-regarding preference;...