We study how cooperation-enforcing institutions dynamically affect values and behavior using a lab experiment designed to create individual specific histories of past institutional exposure. We show that the effect of past institutions is mostly due to “indirect” behavioral spillovers:...

Although it is common in economics to compare institutions on the basis of single dimensional measures of concepts such as efficiency, fairness or freedom, Allan Schmid's Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics rejects that approach with a sharply contrasting vision of...