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-compliers, taken into account selfish players' behavior. Such complier optimal norms lead to a simple behavioral model that, when … experiments, like reciprocal behavior, costly punishment, the role of intentions, giving in dictator games and concerns for social …
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Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the … theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish … informed about the behavior of all others and cheating occurs in full view. We demonstrate that under more realistic …
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bargaining situations. There is also strong evidence that people exploit free-riding opportunities in voluntary cooperation games …. Yet, when they are given the opportunity to punish free-riders, stable cooperation is maintained although punishment is … determines whether the fair types or the selfish types dominate equilibrium behavior. …
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This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which … theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted …
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, or in order to imagine communities and societies more civil, richer than reciprocity, in all its shapes. " (p. xv). From … sciences, until today, inadequately explored: the dimension of the reciprocity between the economic and social agents. - This … regarding theories of reciprocity. - …
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The main objective of this paper is to present a reading of The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin in the context of the financial crisis, in particular, reflect from a few fragments of Benjamin's work appear to lie around a Black Swan. The recovery of the fragments of The Arcades seems...
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We analyze the implications of communitarianism-the tendency of people to organize into separate culturally homogeneous groups-for individual and group inequality in human capital accumulation. We propose a non-cooperative social interactions model where each individual decides how much time to...
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We propose a simple model of a mating economy in both monogamous and polygynous cultures, and derive implications for how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high-status husband. However, when polygyny is allowed,...
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More than half of the HIV/AIDS-infected population today are women. We study a dynamic model of (in)fidelity, which explains the HIV/AIDS gender gap by the configuration of sexual networks. Each individual desires sexual relationships with opposite sex individuals. Two Markov matching processes...
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This paper compares guilt alleviation and competition for social status in the private provision of a public good. When agents are intrinsically impulsed, that is, they mostly provide the public good in order to alleviate their guilt, they tend to free-ride. In contrast, when agents are...
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