they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in …, the classic cooperation game. In the prisoners' dilemma, the first best outcome is attainable, but cannot be sustained as …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … others. In particular, we disentangle the decision to be a conditional cooperator at all from the strength of conditional …

effects of participation in markets on non-market activities requiring cooperation. In our setup, market interaction takes …-Strangers. We compare the efficiency of cooperation with and without market experience controlling for earnings, allowing us to … effect on cooperation efficiency in Market-Partners, that is among those who had to compete with each other on on the same …

cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce … cooperation regimes. This paper uses an anthropological measure of the tightness of historical kinship systems to study the … structure of cooperation patterns and enforcement devices across historical ethnicities, contemporary countries, ethnicities …

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 …

-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in …