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affects the behavior of committee members and the decision-making accuracy. Our theoretical analysis generates two major …
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In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and … cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement, we examine the determinants of shared and sole decision-making in seven …
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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percentage points. These findings can help us to better understand and anticipate the underlying decision of opposition groups …
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. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash …
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This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule …. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members … optimal. In other words, decision makers with different skill levels should not generally be evenly divided among the …
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a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare an exogenous and an endogenous decision …. Our results reveal that both — the decision to extend a contract and the decision mechanism itself — affect not only the … group after the decision has been made …
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We investigate the effects of group identity on hiring decisions with adverse selection problems. We run a laboratory experiment in which employers cannot observe a worker's ability nor verify the veracity of the ability the worker claims to have. We evaluate whether sharing an identity results...
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% higher first stage effort than random matching. In line with the theory the latter result is more pronounced when the task …
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
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