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 … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent …-extraction and cooperation shocks trigger short-run adjustments in the agents' behaviour. However, shocks do not have permanent … effects. This explains the long-run resilience of cooperation to rent extraction. We also show that cooperative attitudes and …

cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting some information about one … cooperation level by approximately 12-13 percentage points. Not only that the average catfisher was substantially more likely to …-term opportunities to misrepresent one’s identity to others can potentially be extremely harmful to later human cooperation and the …

, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …

refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-thefield experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …

-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the … cooperation is lower in Morocco and Turkey than in the UK and the US. Using the ABC approach - in which cooperative attitudes and … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative …

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory … cooperation. We then study the effect on cooperation of exogenously varying rates of entry. Slow growth yields higher cooperation … endogenous growth generally also produces high cooperation levels, growth stalls at intermediate group sizes, leaving potential …