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Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions

Lambrecht, Marco; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; … - 2022

We investigate in a laboratory setting whether revealing information on the intelligence of both players affects … BoS, with high and low payoff inequality. In PD, disclosure markedly hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players … with low payoff inequality, disclosure disrupts coordination, as higher intelligence players try to force their most …

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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …

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Initial risk matrix, home resources, ability development and children's achievement

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the...

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Self-productivity and complementarities in human development: evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...

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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur? Returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees

Hartog, Joop; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2008

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability,...

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Early life adversity and children's competence development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...

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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2014

In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive...

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Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - 2014

Intelligence affects social outcomes of groups. A systematic study of the link is provided in an experiment where two … groups of subjects with different levels of intelligence, but otherwise similar, play a repeated prisoner's dilemma. The … initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation …

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Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making

Chen, Xi - 2018

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution,...

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Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - 2020

A large literature in behavioral economics has emphasized in the last decades the role of individual differences in social preferences (such as trust and altruism) and in influencing behavior in strategic environments. Here we emphasize the role of attention and working memory, and show that...

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