A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always …

impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …We experimentally investigate whether the procedural history of a sanctioning institution affects cooperation in a … evidence, we observe that in the starting generation cooperation is higher (lower) with a democratically chosen (rejected …

institutions one is exposed to “spills over” to subsequent prosociality but not punishment. These findings support a theory of … social heuristics, suggest boundary conditions on spillover effects of cooperation, and demonstrate the power of effective … institutions for instilling habits of virtue and creating cultures of cooperation …

interaction between the observability of the cooperation of others and the absence of punishment targeted at cooperative …

Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game …' updating of their contribution strategy and observe the effect on Citizen cooperation. We find that when States have unlimited …

; punishment ; reward ; endogenous institutional choice ; voting ; experiment … find a large and positive effect of endogenous institutional choice on the level of cooperation in comparison to … exogenously implemented institutions. This suggests that participation rights enhance cooperation in groups. With endogenous …