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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614680
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The Roots of Cooperation
Bašic, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
influence of children’s cognitive skills and parents’ socioeconomic background on cooperation. …We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … game. We find that third-party punishment doubles cooperation rates in comparison to a control condition. Children also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799704
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The Roots of Cooperation
Basic, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599232
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Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth
Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - 2009
Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). SDU respects the interests of future generations and resolves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264536
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Justifying social discounting: The rank-discounted utilitarian approach
Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - 2010
The discounted utilitarian criterion for infinite horizon social choice has been criticized for treating generations unequally. We propose an extended rank-discounted utilitarian (ERDU) criterion instead. The criterion amounts to discounted utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274972
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Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism
Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - 2011
Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277391