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Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents : Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games

Czermak, Simon - 2010

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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Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games

Sutter, Matthias - 2010

. 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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Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict? Understanding the Decision of an Opposition Group

Jetter, Michael - 2016

percentage points. These findings can help us to better understand and anticipate the underlying decision of opposition groups …

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Committee Decision-Making Under the Threat of Leaks

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hahn, Volker - 2021

affects the behavior of committee members and the decision-making accuracy. Our theoretical analysis generates two major …

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Decision-Making by Children

Lundberg, Shelly; Romich, Jennifer L.; Tsang, Kwok Ping - 2021

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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Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, … - 2022

We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of opportunity handed down from the 'testator' subjects determines later redistributive decisions among...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...

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The Preference Survey Module : New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran

Kosfeld, Michael; Sharafi, Zahra - 2022

We provide new evidence on the extent that survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity − predict behavior in corresponding experimental games outside the original...

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'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes : Subjective Versus Revealed Preferences

Akay, Alpaslan - 2017

Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, preference heterogeneity can be inferred from the observation of individual choices (revealed...

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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children

Bauer, Michal - 2011

Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...

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