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School choice in Guangzhou : why high-scoring students are protected?

Fang, Yuanju - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-12

Each year, millions of middle school graduates in China take a standardized test and compete for high school positions … policy in Guangzhou's high school admission. …

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School choice with hybrid schedules

Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz; Dur, Umut Mert; Harris, William - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-11

During the pandemic, school districts have adopted hybrid schedules to continue the education of the students while … only in the same group can physically attend class together two days a week. School districts do not take preferences of … the students/parents over the days they would like to come to school into account during this procedure. In this paper, we …

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Patience or fairness? : analyzing social preferences in repeated games

Duffy, John; Muñoz-García, Félix - In: Games 3 (2012) 1, pp. 56-77

This paper investigates how the introduction of social preferences affects players’ equilibrium behavior in both the one-shot and the infinitely repeated version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. We show that fairness concerns operate as a ”substitute” for time discounting in the...

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Games with synergistic preferences

Jamison, Julian - In: Games 3 (2012) 1, pp. 41-55

Players in economic situations often have preferences not only over their own outcome but also over what happens to fellow players, entirely apart from any strategic considerations. While this can be modeled directly by simply writing down final preferences, these are commonly unknown a priori....

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Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of biased beliefs and distributional other-regarding preferences

Aksoy, Ozan; Weesie, Jeroen - In: Games 4 (2013) 1, pp. 66-88

This study investigates the relationship between an actor’s beliefs about others’ other-regarding (social) preferences and her own other-regarding preferences, using an “avant-garde” hierarchical Bayesian method. We estimate two distributional other-regarding preference parameters, α...

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Modeling inequity aversion in a dictator game with production

Rodríguez-Lara, Ismael; Moreno-Garrido, Luis - In: Games 3 (2012) 4, pp. 138-149

We expand upon the previous models of inequity aversion of Fehr and Schmidt [1], and Frohlich et al. [2], which assume that dictators get disutility if the final allocation of surplus deviates from the equal split (egalitarian principle) or from the subjects' production (libertarian principle)....

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Evolution of mindsight and psychological commitment among strategically interacting agents

Rtischev, Dimitry - In: Games 7 (2016) 3, pp. 1-16

We study the evolution of strategic psychological capabilities in a population of interacting agents. Specifically,we consider agentswhich are either blind orwithmindsight, and either transparent or opaque. An agent with mindsight can observe the psychological makeup of a transparent agent,...

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Team production and esteem : a dual selves model with belief-dependent preferences

Greiff, Matthias - In: Games 10 (2019) 3/33, pp. 1-20

We propose a dual selves model to integrate affective responses and belief-dependent emotions into game theory. We apply our model to team production and model a worker as being composed of a rational self, who chooses effort, and an emotional self, who expresses esteem. Similar to psychological...

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Explaining cooperative behavior in public goods games : how preferences and beliefs affect contribution levels

Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - In: Games 10 (2019) 1/15, pp. 1-34

There is a large body of evidence showing that a substantial proportion of people cooperate in public goods games, even if the situation is one-shot and completely anonymous. In the present study, we bring together two major endogenous factors that are known to affect cooperation levels, and in...

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Preference based subjective beliefs

Giaccherini, Matilde; Ponti, Giovanni - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/50, pp. 1-12

We test the empirical content of the assumption of preference dependent beliefs using a behavioral model of strategic decision making in which the rankings of individuals over final outcomes in simple games influence their beliefs over the opponent’s behavior. This approach— by analogy with...

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