The provision of public goods often relies on voluntary contributions and cooperation. While most of the experimental …

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 …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

experimentally study how delayed costs and/or benefits affect cooperation in a social dilemma situation. We find that cooperation is … substantially reduced (increased) when only the benefits (costs) of cooperation are shifted towards the future. We show that the … amount of economic incentives needed to close the cooperation gap are substantial, indicating discount rates in our strategic …

' cooperation preferences disappears. …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …