Norm-signalling punishment

Daniele Nosenzo, Erte Xiao and Nina Xue

No 2022-26, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The literature on punishment and prosocial behavior has presented conflicting findings. In some settings, punishment crowds out prosocial behavior and backfires; in others, however, it promotes prosociality. We examine whether the punisher’s motives can help reconcile these results through a novel experiment in which the agent’s outcomes are identical in two environments, but in one punishment is self-serving (i.e., potentially benefits the punisher)

Keywords: punishment; norms; stigma; crowd out; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12-01
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