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Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often...
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learning cannot generate the kind of contribution dynamics commonly attributed to the existence of conditional cooperators. We … learning. -- voluntary contribution mechanism ; public goods experiments ; learning ; limited information ; confusion …
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; experiment ; learning … common prior is induced, while for other distributions behavior is similar under both regimes. We also present a learning … show that this learning model accurately accounts for all main features of the data. -- common prior ; signaling …
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States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a …, we observe a large difference between self-selected college students and self-selected adults: the students appear …
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a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of …
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. The results show that reinforcement learning leads to dynamics similar to those observed in standard public goods games … explained by reinforcement learning. According to our estimates, learning only accounts for 41 percent of the decay in …, differ strongly from the learning dynamics, while a learning model estimated from the limited information treatment tracks …
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important factor for selection into various career paths. In a sample of 711 first-year students we examine whether there are … confidence measure: While Political Science students exhibit the highest confidence levels, students of Humanities range at the … other end of the scale. This may have important implications for subsequent earnings and/or professions students select …
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We investigate the role of information feedback in rent-seeking games with two different contest structures. In the stochastic contest a contestant wins the entire rent with probability equal to her share of rent-seeking expenditures; in the deterministic contest she receives a share of the rent...
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