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Disease and violence escalates the prevalence of orphanhood. We investigate whether individuals who were orphaned as a child suffer long‐term consequences on their pro‐sociality. We conduct a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment in rural Uganda where, among other contributing factors, the HIV/AIDS pandemic hit hardest. Subjects made decisions to contribute to a public good. Results indicate that adults who...
Many experiments have demonstrated the power of norm enforcement—peer monitoring and punishment—to maintain, or even increase, contributions in social dilemma settings, but little is known about the underlying norms that monitors use to make punishment decisions, either within or across groups. Using a large sample of experimental data, we empirically recover the set of norms used most often by monitors...
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