laboratory binary choice minimum-effort coordination game, we randomly assign participants to three treatments: starting and … reinforcement learning, conditional cooperation, inertia, preference for consistency, and limited attention. Our findings point to a … simple, voluntary mechanism to promote successful coordination when the capacity to impose sanctions is limited. …

cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial spiteful punishment of high …We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation …

coordination failure by employees using either financial incentives or communication. I compare the choices of subject managers … earnings in excess of $120,000. The EMBA subject managers are able to overcome a history of coordination failure significantly …

behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective … religious and secular Israeli kibbutzim, communal societies for which mutual cooperation is a matter of survival. Our results …

collective societies, the Israeli kibbutz. The facts that kibbutz members have voluntarily chosen their lifestyle of cooperation … levels of cooperation when paired with anonymous kibbutz members than when paired with city residents. In fact, when paired … with city residents, kibbutz members-observed levels of cooperation are identical to those of the city residents. Moreover …

-governed and externally imposed rules. In general, there is widespread agreement that cooperation can happen and be chosen by … of layers of information that the individuals might be using to decide over their level of cooperation. The layers range …

cooperation. Instead, other elements related to social norms and subjective valuation of the benefits and costs of the regulations …

group cooperation. It reports a series of experiments in the field where subjects are actual commons users. Household data … similar experiments. Participants-wealth and inequality reduced cooperation when groups were allowed to have face …-toface communication between rounds. There are implications for a greater awareness of nonpayoff asymmetries affecting cooperation in …

different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to …