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Dilmé, Francesc - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2012

Consider the following situation involving two agents who belong to a large society. One of the agents needs help to avoid a big loss. The other agent may either incur a low cost to help him or do nothing. If agents do not recognize each other, providing incentives for socially optimal behavior...

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Effecting Cooperation

Compte, Olivier; Postlewaite, Andrew - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2007

There is a large repeated games literature illustrating how future interactions provide incentives for cooperation … cooperation in an intuitively plausible fashion. Players process information via a mental system — a set of psychological states …

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Cooperation in Large Societies, Second Version

Dilmé, Francesc - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2012

This paper investigates how cooperation can be sustained in large societies even in the presence of agents who never … other. We introduce and characterize a class of equilibria, named linear equilibria, in which cooperation takes place … when the society is large, and which generate smooth dynamics of the expected average level of cooperation. Unlike …

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Plausible Cooperation,Third Version

Compte, Olivier; Postlewaite, Andrew - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2010

There is a large repeated games literature illustrating how future interactions provide incentives for cooperation … unrealistically complex. We set out a model in which players accomplish cooperation in an intuitively plausible fashion. Players …

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Plausible Cooperation, Second Version

Postlewaite, Andrew; Compte, Olivier - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2009

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Plausible Cooperation, Fourth Version

Compte, Oliver; Postlewaite, Andrew - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2010

There is a large repeated games literature illustrating how future interactions provide incentives for cooperation … in which players accomplish cooperation in an intuitively plausible fashion. Players process information via a mental …

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Social Isolation and Inequality

Postlewaite, Andrew; Silverman, Dan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004

There is an increasing interest in the concept of social exclusion and the related concept of social isolation and their potential role in understanding inequality. We examine the degree to which voluntary separation from social activities during adolescence affects adult wages. It is well-known...

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The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height, Third Version

Persico, Nicola; Postlewaite, Andrew; Silverman, Dan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2001

Taller workers receive a wage premium. Net of differences in family background, the disparity is similar in magnitude to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an individual’s height over time to explore how height affects wages. Controlling for teen height essentially eliminates...

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Fact-Free Learning

Aragones, Enriqueta; Gilboa, Itzhak; Postlewaite, Andrew; … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2003

People may be surprised by noticing certain regularities that hold in existing knowledge they have had for some time. That is, they may learn without getting new factual information. We argue that this can be partly explained by computational complexity. We show that, given a knowledge base,...

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Rationality of Belief Or Why Bayesianism is neither necessary nor sufficient for rationality

Gilboa, Itzhak; Postlewaite, Andrew; Schmeidler, David - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004

Economic theory reduces the concept of rationality to internal consistency. The practice of economics, however, distinguishes between rational and irrational beliefs. There is therefore an interest in a theory of rational beliefs, and of the process by which beliefs are generated and justified....

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