-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation … or people's heterogeneity in preferences makes voluntary cooperation fragile. Universal free riding thus eventually … cooperation ; free riding …

individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them as well as subjects' elicited beliefs to explain contributions …We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …

This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional cooperation is made significantly worse when other players …

spillovers occur. To investigate more clearly motives for voluntary cooperation via analyzing individual adaptations in playing … two structurally independent games, we design treatments differing in cooperation incentives (i.e. different MPCR) and …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

collective sanctions because this increases the degree of cooperation between them. This effect is achieved by the delegation of … members result in higher intergroup cooperation, and whether the introduction of collective sanctions increases the amount of …

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 …