We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …

We report a framed field experiment, in which we study the effectiveness of punishment and reward in sustaining …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third … party vetoes not only punishment to the cooperators but punishment to the defectors as well. Compared with the case when the …

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …

Endogenously chosen punishment institutions perform well in increasing contributions and long-term payoffs in social … dilemma situations. However, they suffer from (a) initial reluctance of subjects to join the punishment institution and (b …) initial efficiency losses due to frequent punishment. Here, we investigate the effects of social learning on the acceptence …

short-term punishment institution (i.e., a crackdown) on bribery behavior in a lab setting. We conduct lab experiments in …

National Crime Victimization Surveys, I proxy these higher costs by victim’s education and income, relationship to the …

A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a … few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime … total crime although the effect was rather weak. The analyses of various types of crime show that the influence of the …

Becker’s analysis of crime and punishment has initiated a series of theoretical and empirical works investigating the … determinants of crime. However, there is a dearth of literature in the context of developing countries. This paper is an attempt to …, poverty,, urbanization and education) on crime rates in India. State-level data is collected on the above variables for the …