This paper examines the hypothesis that cooperation depends on the aspirations that individuals hold for their … rural areas can shape community aspirations and increase cooperation among rural communities in Zambia. The results of a lab … video that presents village life while the collective action video does not affect cooperation. When both contributors watch …

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an … on provision only through the exit mechanism. Assortative selection of interaction partners seems to play a minor role in …

whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation, we let experimental subjects play the traveler's dilemma in the gain …

opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who are similar but have different … long-run losses. Initially similar, cooperation rates for groups with different intelligence levels diverge, declining in … groups of lower intelligence, and increasing to reach almost full cooperation levels in groups of higher intelligence …