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The storable votes mechanism is a method of voting for committees that meet periodically to consider a series of binary decisions. Each member is allocated a fixed budget of votes to be cast as desired over the multiple decisions. Voters are induced to spend more votes on those decisions that...
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This paper investigates whether altruistic punishment when cooperation norms are violated is sensitive to gender … effects. Our framework is a one-shot social dilemma game with third-party punishment in which subjects are informed of the … others' gender within their group. This allows us to test whether third-party punishment depends on the punisher's as well as …
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This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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