Cooperation among strangers has been hypothesized to have declined in the United States
over the past several decades, an alarming trend that has potential far-reaching societal …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

When multiple charities, social programs and community projects simultaneously vie for
funding, donors risk mis-coordinating their contributions leading to an inefficient distribution …

We study, experimentally, how two alternative incentive mechanisms affect team
performance and how a team chooses between alternative mechanisms. We study a group …

We propose and experimentally test a mechanism for a class of principal-agent problems in
which agents can observe each others' efforts. In this mechanism each player costlessly …

We study a game in which players negotiate the allocation of costs resulting from a negative
externality, such as pollution-induced economic costs. Our goal is to explore the feasibility of …

This paper studies how risk impacts the voluntary provision of public goods. In a laboratory
experiment, we create variants of a public good game by separating the return a subject's …

In a laboratory experiment, we study the voluntary provision of a divisible collective good.
Allocations of the collective good to group members are determined by a third party …

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games where a distinguished
team member, the team allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good …

We experimentally investigate the effect of pre-bargaining communication on productive
incentives in a multilateral bargaining game with joint production under two conditions …