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Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the … effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Dvorak, Fabian; Fehrler, Sebastian - 2018

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

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Courtesy and idleness: gender differences in team work and team competition

Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - 2005

Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...

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Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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It's Payback Time: New Insights on Cooperation in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma

Bigoni, Maria; Casari, Marco; Salvanti, Andrea; … - 2022

In an experiment on the repeated prisoner's dilemma where intended actions are implemented with noise, Fudenberg et al. (2012) observe that non-equilibrium strategies of the "tit-for-tat" family are largely adopted. Furthermore, they do not find support for risk dominance of TFT as a determinant...

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Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers

Huffman, David B.; Raymond, Collin; Shvets, Julia - 2023

A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time. Using reduced form and structural methods we...

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Tipping and residential segregation: a unified schelling model

Zhang, Junfu - 2009

This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined,...

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Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Gill, David; Rosokha, Yaroslav - 2022

We aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others. We find that heterogeneity in beliefs and changes in beliefs with experience are central to understanding...

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Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students

Molina, José Alberto; Giménez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - 2013

& Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both …

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