provide information on income distribution and show that cooperation significantly increases overall. Moreover, the effect can …Yang et al.(2007) show that assortative matching mechanisms can induce a high level of cooperation to prevail in … be traced back to a higher cooperation rate for people in the lowest income classes. …

This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game …

the Prisoners' Dilemma (PD) game when information about their own and the other person's mask usage was not salient …. However, we found strong evidence of in-group favouritism among both mask and non-mask wearers when information about the …

A novel version of a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game tests how player cooperation responds to changes in … incentives, i.e., payoffs that depend on performance relative to different reference groups. Cooperation is greatest when players …

This paper reports the results of an experiment on information spillovers between groups. We find that a player who is … a member of multiple groups aggregates information and serves as a conduit through which information from one group … of only a single group. We introduce a novel measure of the magnitude of information spillovers, and we identify the …

). In this paper we address this question by using a measure of costly cooperation elicited in a laboratory experiment to … laboratory experiments with 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. The experiment use a version of the … prisoner's dilemma game to measure subjects' preferences for cooperation. The authors observe the same subjects on the job for …

We present results from a novel experiment on the effect of a policy designed to encourage cooperation in a prisoner …'s dilemma game. We find that the effect of this policy on the level of cooperation is greater when it was chosen democratically …

This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game …

cooperation early on, and information sharing reinforces this behavior over time. … two mechanisms to uphold reputation that are generally unavailable to isolated individuals: information sharing and in …-group punishment. In this paper, we design a laboratory experiment to distinguish the roles of these two mechanisms in sustaining group …