purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various …

purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various …

altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …

willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group …

-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …

interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …

) generally find that the optimal penalty structure is either flat or declining. We experimentally test a two-stage theoretical … model that predicts decreasing penalty structures will yield greater deterrence than increasing penalty structures. We find … for any given decision, being in a decreasing fine structure has a significant effect on deterrence. …

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial spiteful punishment of high …

This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy … contribute more unequally. Contingent punishment strategies are found to increase with decreasing contributions by the target …

the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the theoretical model empirically by conducting contribution game …