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This paper presents a simple adaptive model of demand adjustment in cooperative games, and analyzes this model in weighted majority games. In the model, a randomly chosen player sets his demand to the highest possible value subject to the demands of other coalitions members being satisfied. This...
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field experiment, ahead of the 2015 UK General Election, whereby postcards were sent to 7,679 unregistered students living … in the city. All postcards encouraged students to register to vote, but the precise messages they featured varied …, were not effective in raising registration. In a separate experiment, the authors also showed that the differences in these …
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We conduct a field trust game under a natural experiment context to test the impacts of urbanisation on trust. We …-led urbanisation. We also run a regression on the trust exhibited towards participants in the experiment and found the partial effect …
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quality. This study is the first to use a natural field experiment to test this proposition, and the first to test it in a …
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). In this paper we address this question by using a measure of costly cooperation elicited in a laboratory experiment to … laboratory experiments with 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. The experiment use a version of the …
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potential subjects into the subject pool. We alter the recruitment email sent to first-year students, either mentioning the … over-estimation of social preferences in the student population. -- methodology ; selection bias ; laboratory experiment … ; field experiment ; otherregarding behavior ; social preferences ; social approval ; experimenter demand …
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another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment … of their budget, subjects change consumption according to the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this … Bracketing ; Field Experiment ; Laboratory Experiment …
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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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