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Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …
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unique equilibrium where legal enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …
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We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …
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Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions 1 … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …
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hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …
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We analyze cooperation within a company setting in order to study the relationship between cooperative attitudes and … online experiment. We observe high levels of cooperation and the typical conditional contribution patterns in a modified …, sustained levels of cooperation in our company setting relate to non-financial values of cooperation rather than solely to …
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We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research …
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We consider the psychological and social foundations of human contributions and punishments in a voluntary contributions mechanism with punishment (VCMP). We eliminate ‘dynamic economic linkages’ between the two stages of our ‘modified’ VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We...
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This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...
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of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if …
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