Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that … derive such diverging results by slightly changing the specification of the test equations without violating scientific … deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically …

support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …

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 …

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 …