Which hat to wear? Impact of natural identities on coordination and cooperation

Chen, Yan; Li, Sherry Xin; Liu, Tracy Xiao; Shih, Margaret

doi:10.1016/j.geb.2013.12.002

Cited by 153 publications

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“…There is also a literature that has investigated finitely repeated interaction of social dilemmas, where coordination problems can emerge either in the presence of behavioral types of individuals (Cox et al, 2015) or when individuals have social preferences (Chen et al, 2014). By contrast, in our design individuals are assumed identical and self-interested, and coordination problems emerge because of the indefinite horizon of interaction.…”

Section: Related Experimental Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Monitoring institutions in indefinitely repeated games

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2017

Exp Econ

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Does monitoring past conduct facilitate intertemporal cooperation? We designed an experiment characterized by strategic uncertainty and multiple equilibria where coordinating on the efficient outcome is a challenge. Participants, interacting anonymously in a group, could pay a cost either to obtain information about their counterparts, or to create a freely available public record of individual conduct. Both monitoring institutions were actively employed. However, groups were unable to attain higher levels of cooperation compared to a treatment without monitoring. Information about past conduct alone thus appears to be ineffective in overcoming coordination challenges.

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Section: Related Experimental Literaturementioning

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Monitoring institutions in indefinitely repeated games

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2017

Exp Econ

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“…Last, our study builds upon social identity theory (2, 3) and recent experimental research that uncovers the positive effects of group identity on voluntary contribution and coordination in the laboratory (11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)36) and the field (37). Our team recommendation approach extends social identity research to the realm of behavioral mechanism design at scale.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recommending teams promotes prosocial lending in online microfinance

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et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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This paper reports the results of a large-scale field experiment designed to test the hypothesis that group membership can increase participation and prosocial lending for an online crowdlending community, Kiva. The experiment uses variations on a simple email manipulation to encourage Kiva members to join a lending team, testing which types of team recommendation emails are most likely to get members to join teams as well as the subsequent impact on lending. We find that emails do increase the likelihood that a lender joins a team, and that joining a team increases lending in a short window (1 wk) following our intervention. The impact on lending is large relative to median lender lifetime loans. We also find that lenders are more likely to join teams recommended based on location similarity rather than team status. Our results suggest team recommendation can be an effective behavioral mechanism to increase prosocial lending.social identity | charitable giving | microfinance | field experiment | recommender systems

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“…In recent years a number of economics experiments have successfully used priming to study the effects of race and ethnicity (Benjamin, Choi, and Strickland, 2010;Chen, Li, Liu, Shih, 2010), urban status (Afridi, Li, and Ren, 2009) and religion (Benjamin, Choi, and Fisher, 2010) on various aspects of economic behavior. Benjamin, Choi, and Strickland (2010) provide a nice model of the relationship between priming and social identity, which demonstrates how priming can reveal the marginal effect of increasing the strength of a particular social identity.…”

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confidence: 99%