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 … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

since the underdogs almost never quit the competition even when lagging significantly behind, and frontrunners do not slack …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …

"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma … and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and inferences, and how they interact with material incentives. It then … incentives and sending a message about society's values, and hence about the norms that different behaviors are likely to …

schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. …

, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to … as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …