NORMS OF PUNISHMENT: EXPERIMENTS WITH STUDENTS AND THE GENERAL POPULATION |
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| Authors: | Stefania Bortolotti Marco Casari Francesca Pancotto |
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| Affiliation: | 1. +39 051 209 8135+39 051 209 8143;2. Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy;3. +39 051 209 8662+39 051 209 8493;4. Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy |
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| 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 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) |
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