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Beliefs, learning, and personality in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma

Gill, David; Rosokha, Yaroslav - 2022

We aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others. We find that heterogeneity in beliefs and changes in beliefs with experience are central to understanding...

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Gender differences in cooperation : experimental evidence on high school students

Molina, José Alberto; Giménez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - 2013

Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze...

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Doing your best when stakes are high? : theory and experimental evidence

Houy, Nicolas; Nicolaï, Jean-Philippe; Villeval, … - 2016

experiment that reproduces the main features of a tennis match. We show that our importance criterion is able to predict the …

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Framing effects and impatience : evidence from a large scale experiment

Heijden, Eline C. van der; Klein, Tobias J.; Müller, … - 2012

. -- framing ; choice under risk ; time preference ; experiment …

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The impact of risk perception and risk attitudes on corrupt behavior : evidence from a petty corruption experiment

Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2013

abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …

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The likelihood of divorce and the riskiness of financial decisions

Stark, Oded; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019

We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their finances in a more aggressive (that is, riskier) manner. Assuming that...

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