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An experimental study of voting with costly delay
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority is reached. We study experimentally welfare properties of simple three-voter conclaves with privately known preferences over two outcomes and waiting costs. The resulting game...
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Learning about a class of belief-dependent preferences without information on beliefs
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2011
We show how to bound the effect of belief-dependent preferences on choices in sequential two-player games without information about the (higher-order) beliefs of players. The approach can be applied to a class of belief-dependent preferences which includes reciprocity (Dufwenberg and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408898
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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences
John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017
We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872697
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Household consumption when the marriage is stable
Cherchye, Laurens; Demuynck, Thomas; Rock, Bram de; … - 2014
stable. In particular, stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337411
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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. In models where every new person is effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603203
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Evolution of individual preferences and persistence of family rules
Cigno, Alessandro; Gioffré, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2019
How does the distribution of individual preferences evolve as a result of marriage between individuals with different preferences? Could a family rule be self-enforcing given individual preferences, and remain such for several generations despite preference evolution? We show that it is in a...
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Telling the truth may not pay off : an empirical study of centralised university admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian (contributor); Dwenger, Nadja (contributor) - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003672772
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Fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe : the effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions
Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor);  … - 2008
We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779036
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American idol : evidence of same-race preferences?
Lee, Jungmin (contributor) - 2006
This study examines whether viewers of the popular television show, American Idol, are racially biased. I find strong evidence for same-race preferences, in particular among black viewers. Featuring more black contestants attracts more black households to tune in to watch the show. And, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278953