Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental
issue in all behavioural sciences. In this paper, we review the experimental evidence on …

With the growing body of literature on governance styles in which nonprofit organizations
are involved in creating and implementing public services, there is a need for robust …

This book is intended to fill a gap in the literature on research methods in the social
sciences. To date, methods textbooks have yet to formally incorporate population-based …

Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to
promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or less effective than …

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior
in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated …

Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game
experiments has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found …

We present a lab-field experiment designed to systematically assess the external validity of
social preferences elicited in a variety of experimental games. We do this by comparing …

There has been an enormous amount of experimental research devoted to “otherregarding
preferences” since the publication of the first Handbook of Experimental Economics (Kagel …

Crowdfunding has matured into a meaningful online marketplace, both for traditional e-
commerce activities and for charitable fundraising. For charities, crowdfunding presents …

Students in India who cheat on a simple laboratory task are more likely to prefer public
sector jobs. This paper shows that cheating on this task predicts corrupt behavior by civil …