focuses on context-specific empirical studies. We use a public good game experiment with endogenous groups to investigate how …

preferences in an incentive-compatible manner over voluntary contribution mechanisms with and without reward and punishment … payoffs are significantly greater when punishment is allowed but that only a small minority of participants prefers such an … ; voluntary contribution ; risk, loss, and ambiguity aversion ; preference elicitation ; reward and punishment …

support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far … arguments in policy debates, but also on the moral questions involved in this particular debate. -- death penalty ; deterrence …

Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that … derive such diverging results by slightly changing the specification of the test equations without violating scientific … deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically …

purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various … deterrent effect of the death penalty, but profound uncertainty -- even about its sign. -- execution ; capital punishment … ; homicide ; crime ; death penalty ; differences-in-differences ; murder ; deterrence …

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral ….S.A. than anywhere else. -- conditional cooperation ; public goods ; experiment …