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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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Characterizing Sustainability in Discrete Time
Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - 2018
We examine the investment rule that must be satisfied by an efficient and egalitarian path in a discrete-time version of the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow model of capital accumulation and resource depletion. In the discrete-time model, competitive valuation of net investments in terms of early and late...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931956
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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
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Investment Rules and Time Invariance under Population Growth
Asheim, Geir B.; Hartwick, John M.; Mitra, Tapan - 2020
We propose an adaptation of Hartwick’s investment rule to models with population growth and show that following Hartwick’s rule is equivalent to a time-invariant real per capita net national product. In the so-called DHSS model of capital accumulation and resource depletion the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269583