India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …

initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …

students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation …

higher effort with respect to cooperation and cooperation does not increase effort with respect to the baseline. However …

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

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 …

Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which …