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In Broad Daylight: Fuller Information and Higher-Order Punishment Opportunities Can Promote Cooperation

Kamei, K.; Putterman, L.

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Authors

K. Kamei

L. Putterman



Abstract

The expectation that non-cooperators will be punished can help to sustain cooperation, but there are competing claims about whether opportunities to engage in higher-order punishment (punishing punishment or failure to punish) help or undermine cooperation in social dilemmas. Varying treatments of a voluntary contributions experiment, we find that availability of higher-order punishment opportunities increases cooperation and efficiency when subjects have full information on the pattern of punishing and its history, when any subject can punish any other, and when the numbers of punishment and of contribution stages are not too unequal.

Citation

Kamei, K., & Putterman, L. (2015). In Broad Daylight: Fuller Information and Higher-Order Punishment Opportunities Can Promote Cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 120, 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.09.020

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 26, 2015
Online Publication Date Oct 22, 2015
Publication Date Dec 1, 2015
Deposit Date Sep 30, 2015
Publicly Available Date Apr 22, 2017
Journal Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Print ISSN 0167-2681
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 120
Pages 145-159
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.09.020
Keywords Collective action, Social dilemma, Voluntary contribution, Public goods, Punishment, Counter-punishment, Higher-order punishment.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1398881

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