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Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

Ernst Fehr; Simon Gächter · American Economic Review 90(4), 980–994 · 2000

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Article
Author
Ernst Fehr; Simon Gächter
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DOI 10.1257/aer.90.4.980
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedIn public-goods experiments, Fehr and Gächter found that cooperation declined over repeated rounds without sanctions but rose substantially when participants could punish free-riders at a cost to themselves.