, individual preferences over punishment outcomes remain largely uninformed. We here report data from a laboratory experiment using …Inequality aversion is a key motive for punishment, with many prominent studies suggesting people use punishment to … reduce or eliminate inequality. Punishment in laboratory games, however, is nearly always designed to promote equality (e …

A number of studies have shown that peer punishment can sustain cooperation in public good games. This paper shows that … the format used to give subjects feedback is critical for the efficacy of punishment. Providing subjects with information …

This paper provides a comparative-statics analysis of punishment in public-good experiments. We vary the effectiveness … of punishment, that is, the factor by which punishment reduces the punished player's income. The data show that … contributions increase monotonically in punishment effectiveness. High effectiveness leads to near complete cooperation and welfare …

goods in the form of punishment behavior in one-shot and iterated public goods, and investigate the underlying motivations …. In line with spontaneous cooperation, quick punishment is larger than slow punishment. Negative affect moderates this … spontaneous punishment effect in one-shot public goods, in that punishment decisions are more quickly taken by persons that are …

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members' punishment decisions to that individual …

We experimentally investigate whether third-party punishment is more effective than second-party punishment to increase … public goods contribution. In our experiment, third parties first played the standard public goods game and then made … punishment decisions as independent bystanders. We find that third parties punished more frequently, severely, and less …

questionable whether known solutions to the problem of cooperation, such as punishment could still work, given the limited … optional and compulsory public goods games both with and without a punishment stage. We find that the possibility of opting …-out motivates cooperation. Instead, when punishment is introduced, higher cooperation emerges in the compulsory game. This key …

We synthesize insights from deterrence theory and social psychology literature on retributive justice to develop and … perceptions of punishment deservingness and affect. We also find that tax compliance decreases when a tax fraud perpetrator is …

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …