Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of … quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect …

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 …

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

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

identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along … these two dimensions documents that cooperation and punishment patterns are intuitively aligned for most individuals … engage in punishment. Analyzing the interplay between types in an additional experiment, we show that pro-social punishers …

fixed. The data shows that an increase in local physical distance decreases willingness to donate. A laboratory experiment …

" VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We use a beliefs-based model, rooted in psychological game theory, to derive …

of law. As theory on this specific question is scarce and the rule of law is closely associated with income levels, we …

involving a sample group. These mechanisms reflect the principles of liberal democracy, are procedurally efficient, and involve …

prosocial behavior. We conduct a large-scale online experiment where we add the possibility of purchasing insurance to safeguard …