Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/159737 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 898
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
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 peoples ability to cooperate. Here, punishment reversed the order: with punishment, students cooperate more than the general population while they cooperate less without it. Our results obtained with students cannot be readily generalized to the society at large.
JEL: 
C72
C90
Z13
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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