cooperation behavior and we provide evidence on the microfoundation of this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment … over the internet in Denmark using a design that enables us to disentangle preferences for cooperation from beliefs about … others’ cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

breadth' of cooperation. The coalitions under the unanimity rule are relatively large and implement moderate effort levels …

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 …

cooperation behavior and we provide a microfoundation for this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment over the … internet in Denmark and find that the trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about others …’ cooperation. To disentangle the preference and belief channels, we run a (standard) public goods game in which beliefs matter for …

to ensure cooperation. We also discuss the difference between a public goods problem and collusion. We assert that …

correlate with expectations about cooperation by others among students and other demographic subgroups. However, we lack … knowledge about whether the effect of expected cooperation is causal and a general feature of populations. We fielded … a novel between-subjects experiment. The experiment varied expectations about cooperation by others. We find that higher …

groups whose members know that they are composed only of 'like-minded' cooperators are able to maintain a higher cooperation … groups of 'like-minded' free riders do not cooperate. Yet, we find a high level of strategic cooperation that eventually … understand the dynamics of cooperation and free riding …