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Free keywords:
Punishment, Public Good, Experiment, Selfish
JEL:
H41 - Public Goods
JEL:
C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior
JEL:
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Abstract:
We show that a second-party punisher forces his peers to contribute to a public good while contributing significantly less himself. This effect increased over time and casts doubt on the prevalent prosocial interpretation of (designated) punishment behavior.