Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Claudia Lopez Author-Name-First: Maria Claudia Author-Name-Last: Lopez Author-Email: mlopez@javeriana.edu.co Author-Workplace-Name: School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia Author-Name: James J. Murphy Author-Name-First: James Author-Name-Last: Murphy Author-Email: murphy@uaa.alaska.edu Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage Author-Name: John M. Spraggon Author-Name-First: John Author-Name-Last: Spraggon Author-Email: jmspragg@resecon.umass.edu Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst Author-Name: John K. Stranlund Author-Name-First: John Author-Name-Last: Stranlund Author-Email: stranlund@resecon.umass.edu Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst Title: Comparing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Pro-Social Emotions to Enhance Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia Abstract: This paper presents the results from a series of framed field experiments conducted in fishing communities off the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The goal is to investigate the relative effectiveness of exogenous regulatory pressure and pro-social emotions in promoting cooperative behavior in a public goods context. The random public revelation of an individual’s contribution and its consequences for the rest of the group leads to significantly higher public good contributions and social welfare than regulatory pressure, even under regulations that are designed to motivate fully efficient contributions. Creation-date: 2010-04 File-URL: http://www.econpapers.uaa.alaska.edu/RePEC/ala/wpaper/ALA201007.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Classification-JEL: C93, H41, Q20, Q28, Q56, D70, C90 Keywords: field experiments, regulations, public goods, experimental economics, social dilemma, emotions, environmental economics Publication-Status: Published in Economic Inquiry, 50(1):131-142. Number: 2010-07 Handle: RePEc:ala:wpaper:2010-07