Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival

Alpaslan Akay, Gokhan Karabulut and Peter Martinsson

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 130, issue C, 43-46

Abstract: This paper examines how a religious festival (Ramadan) and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and costly punishment in a public goods experiment. We find significantly higher cooperation levels outside the festival among less religious people. This behavior is consistent with a substitution effect between religious and non-religious activities.

Keywords: Religion; Cooperation; Punishment; Public goods experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 H41 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.01.018

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