We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …

Endogenously chosen punishment institutions perform well in increasing contributions and long-term payoffs in social … dilemma situations. However, they suffer from (a) initial reluctance of subjects to join the punishment institution and (b …) initial efficiency losses due to frequent punishment. Here, we investigate the effects of social learning on the acceptence …

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …

short-term punishment institution (i.e., a crackdown) on bribery behavior in a lab setting. We conduct lab experiments in …

In the last three decades Argentina tripled its crime rate boosting safety at the top of mayor concerns of Argentineans … which leaves open the question about the behavior of incumbent governors of the 23 provinces about anti-crime measures in … the proximity of elections. How do incumbent governors react to escalating crime as elections come closer? This paper …

National Crime Victimization Surveys, I proxy these higher costs by victim’s education and income, relationship to the …

A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a … few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime … total crime although the effect was rather weak. The analyses of various types of crime show that the influence of the …