Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

responsibility affects individual risk preferences. Responsibility does, however, crowd-out cooperation in a public goods game …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic …

cooperation through two mechanisms: an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an exit … examine the relative effectiveness of these two mechanisms in a one-shot, two-person public goods game experiment. We find …

cooperation), especially for Partners. These results suggest Take framing and Individual-level feedback increase the variability … of cooperation. …

Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon … cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … a non-linear voluntary contribution experiment. We find that, for those conditionally cooperating, both reciprocity and …

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent …-extraction and cooperation shocks trigger short-run adjustments in the agents' behaviour. However, shocks do not have permanent … effects. This explains the long-run resilience of cooperation to rent extraction. We also show that cooperative attitudes and …

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent …-extraction and cooperation shocks trigger short-run adjustments in the agents' behaviour. However, shocks do not have permanent … effects. This explains the long-run resilience of cooperation to rent extraction. We also show that cooperative attitudes and …