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Coleman, David E. - 1977

A brief discussion of recent methods using the Hat Matrix for identifying leverage points, and clustering techniques for finding groups of data points is presented. The problem of identifying leverage groups is addressed, and a heuristic algorithm for identifying both leverage points and...

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The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market

Deming, David J. - 2015

model of team production where workers "trade tasks" to exploit their comparative advantage. In the model, social skills …

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The Costs and Benefits of Clan Culture : Elite Control versus Cooperation in China

Chen, Shuo; Fisman, Raymond; Lan, Xiaohuan; Wang, Yongxiang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Kinship ties are a common institution that may facilitate in-group coordination and cooperation. Yet their benefits - or lack thereof - depend crucially on the broader institutional environment. We study how the prevalence of clan ties affect how communities confronted two well-studied...

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Fear and Dreams : Understanding the Non-Institutional sources of Leader Strategy

Bautista, María Angélica; Galán Guerrero, Juan Sebastián - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Political leaders make policy choices which are often hard to explain via institutions. We use the behavior of Colombian paramilitary groups as an environment to study non-institutional sources of variation in how public good provision and violence are combined to control populations. We...

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Crisis Bargaining with Collective Decision Making

Kim, Jeongbin; Palfrey, Thomas R.; Zeidel, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

members, we use the team equilibrium solution concept to analyze these games, providing a framework for group strategic … decision-making under collective choice rules (Kim, et al. 2022). In a team equilibrium, group members have rational … to more or less bluffing and varying aggression compared to Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium. Our experiment varies game …

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Democracy for Polarized Committees : The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants

Casella, Alessandra - 2016

In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that...

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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment

Blinder, Alan S. - 2007

In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...

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Are Two Heads Better Than One? : An Experimental Analysis of Group vs. Individual Decisionmaking

Blinder, Alan S. - 2000

Two laboratory experiments - one a statistical urn problem, the other a monetary policy experiment - were run to test … strikingly similar across the two experiments …

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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study

Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions …

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Liquid Democracy : Two Experiments on Delegation in Voting

Campbell, Joseph; Casella, Alessandra; De Lara, Lucas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

reduces the variety of independent information sources. We report the results of two experiments, each studying two treatments … can choose to abstain. The first experiment follows a tightly controlled design planned for the lab; the second is a … experiments reach the same result: in both, delegation rates are unexpectedly high and higher than abstention rates, and LD …

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