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that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition. …
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Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when deciding whether to be generous. The factors that...
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Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when deciding whether or not to be generous. The factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058912
Under what conditions can cooperation be sustained in a network of strangers? Here we study the role of institutions … possible, including full intertemporal cooperation supported by a social norm based on community punishment of defectors. We … coordination on intertemporal cooperation in ways that networks of strangers were unable to achieve through social norms. …
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Charness and Dufwenberg (2006) find that promises increase cooperation and suggest that the behavior of subjects in …
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We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out,...
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We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out,...
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nationally representative samples from six other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries (France …
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In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust …, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by … patience, time inconsistency and cooperation at the 5% significance level. We also show that these initial gender differences …
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employed in cooperatives.We gathered incentive-compatible measures of risk preferences, time preferences, reciprocity, altruism …
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