We elicit individual-level peer-punishment types in a cooperation (social dilemma) and a coordination (weakest link …) problem. In line with previous literature, we find heterogeneity in peer-punishment in both environments. Comparing punishment … behavior across the two environments within subject, we observe a high degree of individuals’ punishment type stability …

How did human cooperation evolve? Recent evidence shows that many people are willing to engage in altruistic punishment …, voluntarily paying a cost to punish noncooperators. While this behaviour helps to explain how cooperation can persist, it creates … an important puzzle. If altruistic punishment provides benefits to nonpunishers and is costly to punishers, then how …

This paper investigates the efficacy of a punishment mechanism in promoting cooperative behaviour in a public goods … game when punishment enforcement is risky. Experimental studies have found that a sanctioning system can induce individuals … to adopt behaviour deemed socially acceptable in such games. Our experiment qualifies this result by showing that a …