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This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate what personal characteristics affect people's desire to work together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction enhances or detracts from...
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overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …
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perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data - the disclosures of author contributions on …
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This paper uses a variety of individual-level survey data from several countries to test for interactions between subjective well-being at different ages and variables measuring the nature and quality of the social context at work, at home, and in the community. While earlier studies have found...
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from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize and …
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highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one …-time interactions within a group, but the informational content of reputation can differ across groups. We consider two types of … reputation based on image scoring captures past cooperative and uncooperative acts. While either type can successfully sustain …
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The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate … organization. In one society (located by the sea) fishermen are forced to work in groups whereas in the adjacent society (located …
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To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation …
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This paper estimates social effects of incentivizing people in teams. In two field experiments featuring exogenous team … formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions, we find large team effects that operate through social channels …. The team compensation system induced agents to choose effort as if they valued a marginal dollar of compensation for their …
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Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...
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