We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying group growth rates. Using a laboratory public … cooperation. We then study the effect of exogenously varying growth rates on cooperation. Slow growth yields higher cooperation …-reinforcing beliefs persisting under slower growth. Allowing incumbent group members to select growth rates also sustains high cooperation …

contribution mechanisms to foster human cooperation in heterogeneous populations. Our model predicts that a sequential mechanism …

A number of studies have shown that peer punishment can sustain cooperation in public good games. This paper shows that … data suggest that this is because the feedback format acts as a coordination device, which influences the contribution …

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 …

Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across … defectors, classical behavioral experiments suggest that cooperation can take root. Overlooked from standard experimental … show that stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in the repeated public good game. As punishment noise …

We experimentally investigate whether the procedural history of a sanctioning institution affects cooperation in a … impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical … evidence, we observe that in the starting generation cooperation is higher (lower) with a democratically chosen (rejected …

. We interpret subjects behaviour in terms of conditional cooperation which is characterized by both future-oriented and …

Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we … computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however …

We elicit individual-level peer-punishment types in a cooperation (social dilemma) and a coordination (weakest link …

Successful coordination is key for economic and societal wealth. The rich literature on the minimum-effort game (MEG …) has provided valuable insights into coordination, both theoretically and empirically. Yet, although real-world scenarios … often involve asymmetric benefits and/or costs from coordination, most previous studies rely on symmetric MEGs. We …