... block profitable but inequitable coalitions from forming, and how the likelihood of such blocks is affected by the magnitude of payoff inequality. We then empirically examine coalition formation rates using laboratory experiments. Our results show that profitable coalitions are less likely to form...

... ; Heitzig et al., 2011 ; Milinski et al., 2008 ; Tavoni et al., 2011 ; Vasconcelos et al., 2014) , we designed a series of laboratory public-goods experiments to empirically test the proposed agreement structure. In the absence of naturally occurring data that would...

... effort can be either too expensive or difficult to monitor by outsiders. We combine responses from a household survey with results from a set of field experiments in rural Vietnam to examine how people behave when they are unsupervised, and how well are they able to predict the behavior of others...