We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously … findings show that pledges of commitment alone can increase cooperation and welfare in committed partnerships. The introduction … partnerships fall solely on the individual choosing to break up, pledges of commitment fail to improve cooperation and welfare. …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men … hold more optimistic beliefs about coworkers' cooperativeness than men who lack confidence, and are accordingly …

tensions exist between the two ethnic groups. We conduct an incentivized laboratory-style decision-making experiment in which … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … that communication enhances inter-ethnic cooperation significantly. We also find that Uyghur and Han subjects behave …

can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an … exit mechanism, whereby the opportunity to leave the partnership can be used as a threat against free-riders. We examine …

interaction between the observability of the cooperation of others and the absence of punishment targeted at cooperative …

cooperation through two mechanisms: an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an exit … mechanism, whereby the opportunity to leave the partnership can be used as a means to resist exploitation by free-riders. We … examine the relative effectiveness of these two mechanisms in a one-shot, two-person public goods game experiment. We find …