' contributions to a public good. The donation is either costless (because it is financed by the experimenter) or deducted from a team …

players to choose team remuneration in a series of laboratory experiments. This allows for high cooperation payoffs but also … provides individual free-riding incentives. Due to significant cooperation, we observe that, in team remuneration, participants …We present a model where each of two players chooses between remuneration based on either private or team effort …

Peer punishment is widely lauded as a decentralized solution to the problem of social cooperation. However … punishment was primarily altruistic, was sensitive to costs, and promoted cooperation. In generalized exchange, peer punishment … was also altruistic and relatively frequent, but did not increase cooperation. While the dense punishment network …

both cooperation and peer punishment. To make the commitment credible, we assume that those willing to commit have to make …

own gender or in a mixed-gender team. We found that independent of the choice of team, in the initial period, men … contributed significantly more to the team projects than women. Men preferred the successful men-only teams in the subsequent …

Reciprocal cooperation can be studied in the Centipede game, in which two players alternate in choosing between a … investigated cooperation in four Centipede games differing in their payoffs at the game's end (positive versus zero) and payoff … high payoff inequality were found to reduce cooperation significantly. Contrary to previous predictions, combining these …

Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game …' updating of their contribution strategy and observe the effect on Citizen cooperation. We find that when States have unlimited …

Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the … theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish … information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the …