We test, via cross-cultural comparison, the robustness of complex tacit coordination in an endogenous-grouping mechanism originally introduced and experimentally tested by Gunnthorsdottir, Vragov, Seifert and McCabe, 2010. The authors call their mechanism "Group-based Meritocracy...

In a laboratory experiment we compare voluntary cooperation in Iceland and the US (N=156 in a convenience sample of university students). We furthermore compare the associated thought processes across cultures. The two countries have similar economic performance, but survey measures show that...

"Culture has been referred to as a shared frame, the lens through which group members make sense of the world. It has been robustly linked to economic outcomes on the macro level and is also directly linked to decision-making: in recent years, experimental and behavioral economists have found...