Cooperation is essential to reap efficiency gains from specialization, not least in poor
communities where economic transactions often are informal. Yet, cooperation might be …

Trusting behaviour is a cornerstone of cooperation and, hence, economic performance, not
least in poorer communities where economic transactions often rely on informal agreements …

Large-scale agricultural investments (LSAIs) typically depend on strong formal institutions
and market-oriented intensive farming, whereas informal institutions tend to characterize the …

Cooperation in a social dilemma is noble but risky because one is not sheltered against
selfish individuals. This “social uncertainty” is essentially captured in the linear public good …

Context affects decision-making in many ways. In this paper we explore differences in
cooperation behaviour between communal farmers in Namibia and South Africa, who share …

Coordination failures are at the heart of development traps. Although communication can
reduce such failures, to date experimental evidence has primarily been lab based. This …

Smallholders rely on labor exchange and social support networks; however, little is known
about the cooperative dynamics of these interlinked systems. Whereas cultural multi-level …

P revious cross-cultural variation in economic experiments was unexplained by
individuallevel variables such as wealth, income, gender, and education, even though …

This paper examines whether exposure to persistent resource scarcity on the commons
affects pastoralists' readiness to engage in antisocial behavior towards their fellow commons …

Agricultural commodity markets in the developing world often operate in a constrained
environment of prohibitive transaction costs. Consequently, smallholder farmers are only …