TY - JOUR
T1 - In broad daylight
T2 - Fuller information and higher-order punishment opportunities can promote cooperation
AU - Kamei, Kenju
AU - Putterman, Louis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - 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 contribution 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.
AB - 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 contribution 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.
KW - Counter-punishment
KW - Higher-order punishment
KW - Public goods
KW - Punishment
KW - Social dilemma
KW - Voluntary contribution
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.09.020
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.09.020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84947774806
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 120
SP - 145
EP - 159
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
ER -