How does job assignment to positions with different surplus affect fairness concerns? We experimentally examine agents’ fairness concerns in a three-person ultimatum game in which all agents are asked to complete a general knowledge quiz before being assigned to a high-stake or low-stake...

In this paper, we report a replication of Engel’s (Exp. Econ. 14(4):583–610, <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">2011</CitationRef>) meta-study of dictator game experiments. We find Engel’s meta-study of dictator game experiments to be robust, with one important exception: the coding of the take-option (List in J. Polit. Econ....</citationref>

During the last decade, commercial banana cropping has spread widely and rapidly in tropical China. In the present study, we focus on a Dai village to identify how villagers adopted commercial banana cropping and examine the conditions that might sustain this change. The results show that the...

In advancing discrete-based computational cancer models towards clinical applications, one faces the dilemma of how to deal with an ever growing amount of biomedical data that ought to be incorporated eventually in one form or another. Model scalability becomes of paramount interest. In an...