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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014
understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364492
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Strategic complexity and the value of thinking
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2022
Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games. In this paper, we leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on average when they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191643
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Using response times to measure strategic complexity and the value of thinking in games
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2017
Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games (Rubinstein, 2007; Rubinstein, 2016). We leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607565
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Incentive contracts crowd out voluntary cooperation : evidence from gift-exchange experiments
Gächter, Simon; Kaiser, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2024
Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many contractual relationships. In a series of eight laboratory gift-exchange experiments, we show that incentive contracts can lead to crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502768
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Chicken or checkin'? : rational learning in repeated chess games
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik; Rosholm, Michael - 2011
We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the … intelligent, productive and equipped with adequate data and specialized computer programs, we find large learning effects …. Moreover, as predicted by the model, risk-averse players learn substantially faster. -- rational learning ; risk aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310763
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Information and learning in oligopoly : an experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita - 2013
This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual … a priori information. The econometrics hinges on a model built upon Experience Weighted Attraction learning, and the … simultaneous analysis of data on the information gathered and on actions taken by the subjects. Results suggest that learning is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683019
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Beliefs, learning, and personality in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma
Gill, David; Rosokha, Yaroslav - 2022
beliefs with experience are central to understanding behavior and learning in the IRPD. Beliefs strongly predict cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013345861
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Information and beliefs in a repeated normal-form game
Fehr, Dietmar (contributor); Kübler, Dorothea (contributor) - 2008
feedback as the main driving force of learning to play strategically and to form beliefs that accurately predict the behavior … of the opponent. -- Experiments ; beliefs ; strategic uncertainty ; learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747648
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IC technology and learning : an impact evaluation of cl ssi2.0
Checchi, Daniele; Rettore, Enrico; Girardi, Silvia - 2015
In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510702
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Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten
Araujo, María Caridad; Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2016
We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454338