unique equilibrium where legal enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …

hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them as well as subjects' elicited beliefs to explain contributions … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …

-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a … substantial influence on the extent of cooperation, in addition to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences identified …

interpreted as evidence for the passing of cultural traits across generations and for cooperation being sustained by values rather …

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation … finding is that in our setting conditional cooperation is not a strong enough force to increase contribution levels. Although … cooperation and puts some doubt on the idea that it is crucial in overcoming social dilemma problems. …