IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma' in: European Economic Review, 2024, 166, 104753,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14715

When Face Masks Signal Social Identity: Explaining the Deep Face-Mask Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Erwin Wong, Jonathan Yeo, Qi Yu Chan

published in: PLoS One, 2021, 16(6), e0253195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14467

The Roots of Cooperation

Zvonimir Bašić, Parampreet C. Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14384

More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth

Christina Felfe, Martin G. Kocher, Helmut Rainer, Judith Saurer, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13753

Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People

Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13619

Large Losses from Little Lies: Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality

Michalis Drouvelis, Jennifer Gerson, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto

publishled in: PLoS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0282335.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12925

Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma

Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos

published as 'Intelligence, Errors, and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2723 - 2767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12919

The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

Suparee Boonmanunt, Stephan Meier

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 207, 96-109.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12858

Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon

Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 187, 176-191.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12749

Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12540

The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy

Michael Kosfeld

published in: Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12513

Decisions on Extending Group Membership: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes, Katja Rebecca Tilkes

published in: Games, 2020, 11 (4), 61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11897

Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Fabian Dvorak, Sebastian Fehrler

published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 16 (3), 232 - 258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11460

Help, Prejudice and Headscarves

Luis Artavia-Mora, Arjun S. Bedi, Matthias Rieger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11457

Social Norms, Endogenous Sorting and the Culture of Cooperation

Ernst Fehr, Tony Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11290

Civility and Trust in Social Media

Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11227

Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma

Alice Solda, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 58 (1), 120-149

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11196

Public Funding and Corporate Innovation

Mathias Beck, Martin Junge, Ulrich Kaiser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11131

Creating an Efficient Culture of Cooperation

Ernst Fehr, Tony Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11130

The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction

Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi, Mahnaz Nazneen

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 209-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9997

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Michal Bauer, Christopher J. Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel, Tamar Mitts

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9982

Group (Re-)formation in Public Good Games: The Tale of the Bad Apple

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes

published in: Journal of Ecconomic Behavior & Organization 145 (2018), 306-319.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9941

Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries

Froilan T. Malit Jr., George S Naufal

published in: International Migration, 2016, 54(5), 76-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9871

Intuitive Cooperation and Punishment in the Field

Luis Artavia-Mora, Arjun S. Bedi, Matthias Rieger

published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 133-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9842

The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations

José Alberto Molina, Alfredo Ferrer, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Carlos Gracia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno, Angel Sanchez

published as 'Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a Public Good game with three generations' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 17, 535 - 552

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9767

Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Daniele Nosenzo, Jon E. Anderson, Matthew Bombyk, Derek Ganzhorn, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9705

Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition

Dennis J. Snower, Steven J. Bosworth

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 420–424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9703

Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Steven J. Bosworth, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 72-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9384

Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations

Lata Gangadharan, Nikos Nikiforakis, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9296

Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover: A Firm-Level Perspective

Anders Frederiksen

published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2017, 31 (2), 132-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9241

Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion

Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter, Simone Quercia

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9039

Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City

Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 254-264

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8761

Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes

considerably shortened version published as 'Public Good Provision in Blended Groups of Partners and Strangers' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 134, 41-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8533

Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents

Sebastian Kube, Sebastian Schaube, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Elina Khachatryan

published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 248-268.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8499

Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos

Extended version published as 'Intelligence Personality and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (3), 1351-1390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8287

The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Gonne Beekman, Stephen L. Cheung, Ian Levely

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 63, 168-183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8107

Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War

Michal Bauer, Nathan Fiala, Ian Levely

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1786-1819.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7932

Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Zhixin Dai, Robin M. Hogarth, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 74, 146-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7896

Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting

Nikos Askitas

published as 'Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the predator' in: Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018, 12 (1), 471 - 485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7485

Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows

George S Naufal, Ismail H. Genc

published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2015, 51(6), 1175-1178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7421

Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students

José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José A. Cuesta, Carlos Garcia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno, Angel Sanchez

published in: PLoS ONE, 2013, 8(12): e83700.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7148

Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts

Sebastian Fehrler, Wojtek Przepiorka

published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013, 34, 139-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6747

Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay

Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey, Thibaud Vergé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6711

A Reason for Unreason: Returns-Based Beliefs in Game Theory

Chander Velu, Sriya Iyer, Jonathan R. Gair

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6620

Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Thomas Markussen, Ernesto Reuben, Jean-Robert Tyran

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (574), F163-F195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6277

Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation

Christian Thöni, Simon Gächter

revised version published as 'Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 72 - 88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6179

The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson

substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5999

Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Peter J. Kuhn, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Are Women More Attracted to Co-operation Than Men?' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 125, 115-140.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5844

Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition among University Students

Maria Bigoni, Margherita Fort, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published as 'Cooperation or Competition? A Field Experiment on Non-Monetary Learning Incentives' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 15 (4), 1753-1792

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5733

The Effects of Cooperation: A Structural Model of Siblings' Caregiving Interactions

Marike Knoef, Peter Kooreman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5689

New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment

Stephen L. Cheung

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 129-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5618

Incentives and Cooperation in Firms: Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5592

Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation

Mateus Joffily, David Masclet, Charles N. Noussair, Marie Claire Villeval

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80(4), 1002-1027.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4938

Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Maurice Schiff

published as 'Small States, Micro States, and their International Negotiation and Migration' in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2014, 29 (3), 430-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4643

Voting with Feet: Community Choice in Social Dilemmas

Özgür Gürerk, Bernd Irlenbusch, Bettina Rockenbach

completely revised version published as 'On Cooperation in Open Communities' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120, 220–230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4303

Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations

Ernesto Reuben, Arno Riedl

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 77 (1), 122-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4129

Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation

Simona Iammarino, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli, Nick Von Tunzelmann

published as 'Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Innovative Cooperation of Firms in the UK Regions' in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1283-1301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4112

Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition

Ernesto Reuben, Jean-Robert Tyran

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 26 (1), 25-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4107

Revisiting Strategic versus Non-Strategic Cooperation

Ernesto Reuben, Sigrid Suetens

published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 24-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4107

Revisiting Strategic versus Non-Strategic Cooperation

Ernesto Reuben, Sigrid Suetens

published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 24-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3891

Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents

Marco Francesconi, Helmut Rainer, Wilbert van der Klaauw

published as 'Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform for Children with Single Parents: A Theoretical Analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 709-733

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3625

Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Ernst Fehr, Andreas Leibbrandt

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1144-1155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3599

Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?

Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi, Antonio Filippin

revised version published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (3), 275-289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2927

Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens

published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2011, 42 (1), 23–43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2916

Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Ernesto Reuben, Arno Riedl

published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2009, 53 (1), 72-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2879

Discretionary Latitude and Relational Contracting

Steven Y. Wu, Brian E. Roe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2871

Optimal Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker, or Mode IV?

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2423

Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation

Bernd Irlenbusch, Gabriele K. Ruchala

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2288

Institution Formation in Public Goods Games

Michael Kosfeld, Akira Okada, Arno Riedl

published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1335-1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2170

Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute

Solomon Polachek, Carlos Seiglie

published in: T. Sandler and K. Hardley (eds.), Handbook of Defense Economics Vol. 2, Elsevier 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2119

Punishment, Inequality and Emotions

David Masclet, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Punishment, inequality, and welfare : a public good experiment' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 31 (3), 475–502.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2013

Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 70 (3), 458-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2011

Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gächter

substantially revised and split up versions published as: (1) 'Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (1), 541-556; and (2) 'The Behavioral Validity of the Strategy Method in Public Goods Experiments', Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (4), 897-913

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1988

Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation

John Robst, Solomon Polachek, Yuan-Ching Chang

published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2007, 24 (1), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1977

Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation

Erte Xiao, Daniel Houser

revised version published as "Punish in Public" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 1006-1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1973

Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism

Murat Iyigun

published as 'Luther & Suleyman' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008,123 (4), 1465-1494.