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types can be exploited to enhance cooperation by structuring the twice-played prisoners' dilemma to "start small," so that …
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paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … useful information for designing efficient incentive mechanisms to induce cooperation in a stochastic social dilemma …
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to enforce cooperation within these different regimes. This paper develops a measure of the tightness of historical … readily support in-group members in need. This cooperation regime is enforced by tribalistic moral values, emotions of … social cooperation systems …
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against policies that impose direct costs even if they induce larger indirect benefits. Using a lab experiment, we find that a …
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important features of the data they possess. We conduct a field experiment with seaweed farmers to test a model of "learning …
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literature is that market experience is endogenous. This study presents a framed field experiment that exogenously induces market …
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experiment in the laboratory, the cost to gather the data would be well over $350,000. The data reveal several interesting …
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increases. The experiment also points to new avenues for refining the theory. We find that, as the payoff of a successful …We conducted a laboratory experiment to test the comparative statics predictions of a new approach to collective action … also allows to decompose the mechanism that leads to more cooperation into a "belief effect" and a "range of cooperation …
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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We compare how well agents aggregate information in two repeated social learning environments. In the first setting agents have access to a public data set. In the second they have access to the same data, and also to the past actions of others. Despite the fact that actions contain no...
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