9  Fehr and Gächter (2000)

Discussion paper: Fehr and Gächter (2000) “Cooperation and punishment in public goods experiments”, American Economic Review

Supplementary papers:

• Fehr and Gächter (2002) “Altruistic punishment in humans”, Nature
• Gächter and Herrmann (2009) “Reciprocity, culture and human cooperation: Previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

This paper shows that under the right circumstances, people may contribute to public goods even when self-interested reasoning predicts otherwise.

Fehr, E., and Gächter, S. (2000). Cooperation and punishment in public goods experiments. American Economic Review, 90(4), 980–994. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.90.4.980

Fehr, E., and Gächter, S. (2002). Altruistic punishment in humans. Nature, 415(6868), 137–140. https://doi.org/10.1038/415137a

Gächter, S., and Herrmann, B. (2009). Reciprocity, culture and human cooperation: Previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364(1518), 791–806. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0275