Abstract:
This paper focuses on the universality of conditional cooperation, effects of punishment and social capital on conditional cooperation. Three hypotheses associated with the external validity of experiments are proposed, which are tested with the students by using traditional experiment and the workers by artificial field experiment. Main findings of this study are: 1) Conditional cooperation is a common phenomenon, and is relatively stable, although there are differences between cooperation levels of different groups; 2) Punishments of public good experiment have endogenous premiums, but the premiums of different groups may have different directions and different mechanisms; 3) There is a significant positive correlation between social capital and the level of cooperation, but the mechanisms of impacts may be different in different populations. Results of this paper can provide a more robust theoretical and experimental basis for policy-makers to design different incentive systems according to the characteristics of different populations, in order to promoting social cooperation.
Key words:
Conditional Cooperation; Punishment; Social Capital; Social Network; General Trust
Fund：
The National Social Science Fund of China, Phased Results of "Theories, Policies, and Empirical Research on Social Network Impacts Income Gap" (12CJL023);
Reference:
Zhou, Y., Tu, Q., & Hu, B. (2014). Punishment, Social Capital, and Conditional Cooperation---A Comparative study on traditional experiment and field experiment. Economic Research Journal, (2014)10, pp.125-138. （《惩罚、社会资本与条件合作——基于传统实验和人为田野实验的对比研究》）
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