Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this … paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … specified probabilistically under a transparent information condition. In particular, we study two types of punishment …

critical to achieving desirable social outcomes. Social norms may underpin such behavior, but they can also undermine it. We …

for the theory and estimation of how voter preferences enter into electoral and political economy models …

data further reveal that legislators generally have accurate beliefs about public opinion on corruption and understand its … relevance to voters. An informational treatment updates legislators' beliefs about public opinion. The treatment produces …