Third party punishment is crucial for sustaining cooperative behavior. Still, little is known about its determinants. In this paper we use laboratory experiments to investigate a long-conjectured interaction between group identification and bystanders’ punishment preferences using a novel measure of these preferences. We induce minimal groups and give a bystander the opportunity to punish the p...

Experimental literature has shown that social preferences influence how individuals bargain and make sharing decisions. It usually considers situations in which individuals negotiate on a single issue. This paper explores a different environment and reports on an experiment based on a non-cooperative game in which the choice of the bargaining agenda is endogenous. We fnd that firms reveal a str...

social capital can improve industrial growth via different mechanisms. in this study, taking the improvement of technology through social capital as one of the mechanisms, we have analyzed the effect of social capital on industrial growth theoretically and empirically. according to the findings of the article, derived from our cointegration model, and iranian economic data (1966-2006), social c...

This paper addresses the prevalence of non-monetary gifts over more highly valued and e$cient monetary transfers in social relationships. We demonstrate that under a wide variety of circumstances, ine$cient non-monetary gifts will be o!ered by a donor in lieu of cash in order to signal the donor's quality of information about the recipient's preferences. This result emerges because gift giving ...

Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social institutions for growth and development. JEL Classification: O10, N10, N13

The primary objective of this paper is to highlight the distinct roles of altruism and of self-interest in the political determination of a public education policy. I assess the relative importance of three factors in the determination of the equilibrium level of this policy: altruism, the impact of public funding of education on social security benefits and its impact on factor prices. I then ...

 In this paper, a version of the Vector Auto Regression (VAR) model has been used to investigate the interacted and dynamic effects between social capital and economic development in Iran during the period 1987-2006. To this purpose, variables of human capital, health and income distribution have been considered as the proxies of economic development. In addition, the volume of risky bank chequ...

Adopting a person-centred approach, we integrate the job demands-control-support model with relational work design theory to investigate employee profiles involving autonomy, workload, social support and prosocial characteristics (representing combined influence of task significance beneficiary contact). For sample Australian not-for-profit employees ( N = 2421), identified four profiles: ‘acti...

social cohesion represents the interaction and linkage of the society, is a most important reason of different institutional performance to achieve economic development. the purpose of this paper is to estimate social cohesion and the relation of social cohesion with economic development for 85 selected developed and developing countries in 2010. in this research the social cohesion index have ...