A large-scale economic experiment, conducted on a representative sample of the US population, shows that cooperation … show that the effect of cooperation is strongly associated with political affiliation, with Democrats attaching … significantly more importance to cooperation as a source of moral obligation than Republicans. Our findings shed light on the …

that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower …

improves the workers' outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some … upper limit for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive …. -- offshoring : import competition ; wage bargaining ; oligopoly ; redistribution …

economy, but there is not much evidence that countries with a large welfare state and substantial redistribution have worse … such consumer rivalry the government wishes to correct for the rat race, even if there is no need for redistribution, by …

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … and redistribution levels. …

cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral … cooperation for pairs of market-winners, market-losers and mixed pairs and study both the cases where interaction in the social … experience has adverse effects on the efficiency of cooperation on both market-winner and market-loser pairs. In market …

cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …

-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions …