present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …

behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a …

experiment, varying first whether inclusion of a newcomer is exogenously imposed through a random draw or endogenously decided on …

. -- individual behavior ; group membership ; team decision-making ; experiment … making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the … same as team decisions. This finding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects …

. Giving to the out-group also renders subjects more accepting of inequality. However, the experiment also uncovers a large …-behaved, yet systematically different underlying social preference functionals. Hence this experiment suggests that the rational …

, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …