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We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a … selection is either based on competence, on self-confidence, or made at random. Teams with random leaders do not underperform … compared to competent leaders, and they even outperform teams whose leader is selected based on self-confidence. The reason is …

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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam

Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021

We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in...

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Cognitive foundations of probability

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Cognitive constraints, contraction consistency, and the satisficing criterion

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Breastfeeding and child development

Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2021

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children’s development in the first five years of life,...

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