Welfare Implications of Peer Punishment in Unequal Societies

Martine Visser

No 218, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: We show that peer sanctioning increases cooperation in public goods experiments more in unequally endowed groups than in equally endowed groups. Punishment results in a redistribution of wealth from high to low endowment players within groups.

Keywords: Inequality; cooperation; punishment; public goods; welfare and poverty; social norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D63 H41 I30 Q20 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2006-01-31
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp, nep-pbe and nep-soc
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