contrast the performance of lower ability participants and higher ability participants in an experiment with three distribution … greater preference for equal sharing and concern about cooperation in chatting about the teams' compensation system than …

Coordination is central to social interactions. Theory and conventional lab experiments suggest that cheap talk … agricultural cooperatives seek to jointly sell their output. Combining artefactual/lab-in-the-field experiments (LFEs), natural … field experiments (RCTs), surveys, and cooperative records, we find that (1) revealing farmers' intended sales (i.e., cheap …

, it induces preference-concordant rankings. However, recent evidence shows that--in both real, large-stakes applications … and experiments--participants frequently play seemingly dominated, significantly costly, strategies that avoid small …

experiments provide general support for the strategic rationale behind the role of commitment and, more specifically, for the …

for instrumental purposes. We then present an experiment that tests these ideas in the laboratory and finds support for …