NORMS OF PUNISHMENT: EXPERIMENTS WITH STUDENTS AND THE GENERAL POPULATION

NORMS OF PUNISHMENT: EXPERIMENTS WITH STUDENTS AND THE GENERAL POPULATION

Norms of cooperation and punishment differ across societies, but also within a single society. In an experiment with two subject pools sharing the same geographical and cultural origins, we show that opportunities for peer punishment increase cooperation among students but not in the general populat...

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Veröffentlicht in:Economic inquiry 2015-04, Vol.53 (2), p.1207-1223
Hauptverfasser: Bortolotti, Stefania, Casari, Marco, Pancotto, Francesca
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
College discipline
College students
Comparative analysis
Cooperation
Cultural factors
Demographic aspects
Discipline
Experimental methods
Geography
Norms
Psychological aspects
Punishment
Sociology
Stratified sampling
Students
Studies
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Zusammenfassung:Norms of cooperation and punishment differ across societies, but also within a single society. In an experiment with two subject pools sharing the same geographical and cultural origins, we show that opportunities for peer punishment increase cooperation among students but not in the general population. In previous studies, punishment magnified the differences across societies in people's ability to cooperate. Here, punishment reversed the order: with punishment, students cooperate more than the general population while they cooperate less without it. (JEL C72, C90, Z13)
ISSN:0095-2583
1465-7295
DOI:10.1111/ecin.12187