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We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes. Coincident with changes in the party imbalance of the Court over time, sharp discontinuities in these dependencies are evident. Overall, the patterns suggest a tradeoff between...
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. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash …We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games … to textbook rationality. Using a mixture model, the estimated probability to play strategically is 62% for teams, but …
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affects the behavior of committee members and the decision-making accuracy. Our theoretical analysis generates two major … among committee members. As a consequence, a status-quo bias arises. Our laboratory results confirm these predictions …
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In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and … cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement, we examine the determinants of shared and sole decision-making in seven …
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
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individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information …We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them …
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received the same performance – independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … performance. When only one team member's wage was cut, the performance decrease for the workers who received the cut was more than … depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and …
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this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …
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assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are …
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