In the presence of social dilemmas, cooperation is more difficult to achieve when populations are heterogeneous because of conflicting interests within groups. We examine cooperation in the context of a non-linear common pool resource game, in which individuals have unequal extraction capacities...

In the presence of social dilemmas, cooperation is more difficult to achieve when populations are heterogeneous because of conflicting interests within groups. We examine cooperation in the context of a non-linear common pool resource game, in which individuals have unequal extraction capacities...

What are the barriers to the effectiveness of women leaders? If leaders' proposals are different from what they do ("opportunism"), then trust in leaders might decrease, potentially decrease the quality of governance. Using experiments conducted in rural India, this paper finds that women...