how the experience of collective irrigation management in the real world facilitates the spillover of social behaviour …

how the experience of collective irrigation management in the real world facilitates the spillover of social behaviour …

formation of within-group cooperation is affected by different types and degrees of between-group interactions. We show that … when between-group interactions are of the same directions and weak (strong), within-group cooperation for providing public … the opposite directions or unidirectional, within-group cooperation will necessarily occur. In addition, endogenous …

simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as … individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members. The conditional-cooperation … hypothesis, from behavioral economics, predicts that cooperation will increase as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas …

competition (lottery contest) and one that encourages cooperation (public good game). We find that simultaneous participation in … strategic uncertainty and path-dependence across games. Our design allows us to compare preferences for cooperation and …

reasons such as group polarization. This paper experimentally compares cooperation behaviors between pairs and individuals in … suggest that the enhanced cooperation behavior of pairs may be driven by (a) the mere fact that they have partners when they … partners in their pairs, and (c) stronger conditional cooperation behavior of pairs to their matched pairs. …

Decentralization of irrigation management to local communities is often claimed to improve performance. The argument is … that decentralization enhances the perceived legitimacy of irrigation management, which in turn increases the willingness … of water users to cooperate and contribute to irrigation management. To test this hypothesis, we collected information …

cooperation in a social dilemma. Punishments tend to be directed at non-cooperators and rewards are assigned by those who are … and rewards fail to increase cooperation. …