Why cooperation occurs when noncooperation appears to be individually rational has been an issue in economics for at … least a half century. In the 1960's and 1970's the context was cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game; in the 1980's … empirical evidence suggests higher levels of cooperation. This is a major reason for the emergence in the 1990's and more …

Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by … of altruism, are in this instance the most amenable to government intervention …

limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism … impure altruism compared with pure altruism, we show that, in general, it can be either more or less. Second, we propose a … heterogeneity based on park and volunteer hour types, are theoretically consistent with the mainstay model of impure altruism …

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and … cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries …

This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an enforcement agency to detect and …

paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … useful information for designing efficient incentive mechanisms to induce cooperation in a stochastic social dilemma …