economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a standard public goods game. The … experimental data presents us with a surprising result. We find no significant correlation between the degree of cooperation of a … child and that of his or her parents. Such lack of cooperation is robust across age groups, sex, family size and different …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but the electoral …

find a large and positive effect of endogenous institutional choice on the level of cooperation in comparison to … exogenously implemented institutions. This suggests that democratic participation rights enhance cooperation in groups. With … high levels of cooperation. Our results are evaluated against the predictions of social preference models. …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …

This paper tests the insiders’ dilemma hypothesis in a laboratory experiment. The insiders’ dilemma means that a …

We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one …

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …