voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …

beliefs with experience are central to understanding behavior and learning in the IRPD. Beliefs strongly predict cooperation …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

Existing research supports two opposing mechanisms through which positive mood might affect cooperation. Some studies … have suggested that positive mood produces more altruistic, open and helpful behavior, fostering cooperation. However … reduced use of information, hampering cooperation. We find evidence that suggests the second hypothesis dominates when playing …

While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence … comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of … payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on cooperation within equal groups. When all groups are poor or rich …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …

benefit- fostering unselfish cooperation and norm enforcement within the group-but also whether there is a dark side, in the … form of hostility between groups. Our experiment provides the first evidence free from the confounding effect of self … willingness to enforce a norm of cooperation towards fellow platoon members. This suggests that the social aspect of organizations …

fixed. The data shows that an increase in local physical distance decreases willingness to donate. A laboratory experiment …