This paper investigates the effectiveness of peer punishment in nonlinear social dilemmas and replicates Cason and Gangadharan (Exp Econ 18:66-88, 2015). The contribution of this replication is that cooperation is quantified across payoff equivalent, strategically symmetric public good and common pool resource experiments. Results suggest that the cooperation-inducing effect of peer punishment is statistically equivalent across conditions. Despite this increase in cooperation, earnings are significantly lower than in the absence of punishment. Institutional features which improve the effectiveness of peer punishment in linear public good experiments may, similarly, make self-governance possible in more complex social dilemmas.
The objective of this study was to demonstrate the utility of time-to-event analysis as a means of developing a feedback loop from researchers to program staff for the purpose of quality improvement and program evaluation. Data collected in a five-year follow-up study of 188 youth discharged from Boys Town residential care programs across the United States were treated with Cox Proportional Hazards Regression analysis with time -to-criminal behavior as the criterion variable. The most explanatory and parsimonious model included history of criminal behavior at the time of intake and score on the Departure Success Scale at the time of discharge. The results suggest that increasing attention be focused on addressing developing criminal tendencies and intensive aftercare for youth with a high risk of offending. Review of cases of youth expected to offend but who did not offend indicate that those high risk youth had formed and maintained healthy bonds with their caretakers during and after treatment.
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