We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing …

Throughout human history, informal sanctions played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …. The exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized …

theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted … towards the defectors but the latter also impose a considerable amount of spiteful punishment on the cooperators. However …, spiteful punishment vanishes if the punishers can no longer affect the payoff differences between themselves and the punished …

public opinion between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank during periods of intense punishment with the gap during periods when … collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the …, have inflicted hardship on the civilian population. We combine Palestinian public opinion data, Palestinian labor force …

There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the … of public opinion move differently over time and in response to different macro-level variables. The results suggest that … both dimensions need to be taken into account when assessing the overall climate of public opinion towards immigration …