Gender, Punishment, and Cooperation: Men hurt others to advance their interests

Terence Burnham ()
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Terence Burnham: Chapman University Argyros School of Business and Economics

Working Papers from Chapman University, Economic Science Institute

Abstract: A laboratory experiment that reports on gender, cooperation, and punishment in two repeated public goods game using high-powered punishment. In a repeated public goods game with punishment, no statistically significant differences between men and women are reported. In a modified game that adds an explicit payoff for relative performance, men punish more than women, men obtain higher rank, and punishment by males decreases payoffs for both men and for women. These results contribute to the debate about the origins and maintenance of cooperation.

Keywords: Cooperation; Reciprocity; Punishment; Public-Goods; Altruism; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 C72 C91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp, nep-gen and nep-gth
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