engage in punishment. Analyzing the interplay between types in an additional experiment, we show that pro-social punishers … punishment as well as their relative importance for mitigating social dilemmas. Using a novel strategy-method approach we … identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along …

systems exist that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges … quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …

This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide … punished. As a consequence, the existence of an opportunity for costly punishment causes a large increase in cooperation levels … because potential free riders face a credible threat. We show, in particular, that in the presence of a costly punishment …

refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-thefield experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …

This paper studies how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behavior. Using rich administrative data from … beliefs, as reflected in our survey. Yet, we document large mechanical benefits of swift punishment and provide a theoretical …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility …

preferences or peer punishment, both of which are similar across the four subject pools. Our methodology is generalizable across …

individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them as well as subjects' elicited beliefs to explain contributions …

This paper argues that the "Economics of Crime" concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several … feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …