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We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias …
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The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than existing sociological theories. Two case studies - one on...
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We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an …
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Solving humanity's social-environmental challenges calls for co-operation by the relevant actors. Hence, involving them … interventions effectively foster co-operation for sustainable natural resource management? Research on collective action and … Development (IAD) framework. Our review shows that participatory interventions can foster co-operation (a) by helping the relevant …
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Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations people face a dilemma about making individually costly but...
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Evolution of cooperation by reciprocity has been studied using two-player and n-player repeated prisoner's dilemma … cooperation when less generous, and better at maintaining a long-term cooperation in the presence of rare defectors when more …
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We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and participate in a repeated public good game with stochastic outcomes. They can choose each period between staying in the public project or working on their own. There is excessive exit as...
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Should people be allowed to leave joint projects freely or should they be deterred from breaking off? This depends on why people stop collaborating and whether they have good reasons to do so. We explore the factors that lead to the breakdown of partnerships by studying a public good game with...
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behavior appropriately. Nonetheless, evolutionary studies of cooperation typically focus only on reaction norms, e.g., tit for … cooperation. The state-of-mind inference requires Bayesian belief calculations, which is computationally intensive. We therefore … of their opponent's behavior. These commitment-like decision rules can enhance or reduce cooperation depending on the …
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Using a microeconomic model and data from the Establishment Panel of the German Institute for Employment Research, we analyze the optimal establishment size against the background of rent-seeking workers and the influence of works councils. The theoretical part shows that establishment size has...
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