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...

Beliefs about others' cooperativeness are among the strongest determinants of cooperative behaviours. Beliefs about different others, however, are not necessarily uniform, nor necessarily related to past behaviours: different expectations about different others might solely originate from...

This paper studies if devolution of political power in conflict affected areas can reduce violence by providing an institutional means to address people's grievances. In particular, I look at the impact of a local government, introduced in tribal districts in 1996, on Maoist insurgency in India....