The observability of partners' past play is known to theoretically improve cooperation in an infinitely repeated … prisoner's dilemma game under random matching. This paper presents evidence from an incentivized experiment that reputational … information per se may not improve cooperation. A structural estimation suggests that a certain percentage of players act …

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect … reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest as a means to increase cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma …

cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting some information about one … cooperation level by approximately 12-13 percentage points. Not only that the average catfisher was substantially more likely to …-term opportunities to misrepresent one’s identity to others can potentially be extremely harmful to later human cooperation and the …

cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting some information about one … cooperation level by approximately 12-13 percentage points. Not only that the average catfisher was substantially more likely to …-term opportunities to misrepresent one's identity to others can potentially be extremely harmful to later human cooperation and the …

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias … the effectiveness of these mechanisms in a one-shot public goods experiment. Voluntary participation has a positive effect …

the accountable state by conducting a two-level public goods experiment in which civic engagement can build a sanction … taxation. In addition, we find that local social interaction among subgroups of participants also boosts cooperation. …

post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …