Common Pool Resources

Fishing the Mesopelagic Zone

We look at decision-making under risk with regard to exploiting the mesopelagic zone.

Data on Donation Behavior Towards the Conservation of Migratory Species

The data contains 716 individual decisions and responses from a lab-in-field experiment and an exit questionnaire that were conducted in Denmark, Spain, and Ghana. Individuals were initially asked to perform a small effort task (i.e., correctly …

Data on How Abundance of Resource Inflows and Punishment Types Affect Resource Extraction Behavior

The data is collected through laboratory experiments on a dynamic common pool resource game, where, in an infinitely repeated number of rounds (i.e., game ended randomly), individuals made decisions about whether to exert a high or a low effort level …

Resource booms and group punishment in a coupled social-ecological system

Climate change is altering the dynamics of common pool resources around the world. We design an experimental game that varies both the flow of natural resources and the group punishment mechanisms available to resource users. Our experiments show …

Endogenous vs. exogenous regulations in the commons

It is widely believed that there is strong experimental evidence to support the idea that exogenously imposed regulations crowd out the intrinsic motivations of common pool resource (CPR) users to refrain from over-harvesting. We introduce a novel …