Agenda

Ludovica Spinola will present her experimental project which would be the third and last chapter of her Ph.D. thesis. The work is titled "Spillover effects over more or less competitive environments: the role of gender".

Abstract:

A worker within a firm, or a researcher within the academia, is required to cooperate with colleagues in team-projects, and at the same time to compete with them for career progressions. Hence, within the workplaces, individuals need to adapt when moving from more competitive to more cooperative environments or tasks, and vice-versa. We want to experimentally test whether there are spill-over effects, and whether women and men behave differently when moving from a more competitive (cooperative) Prisoner’s Dilemma to a more cooperative (competitive) one. As a measure of the competitiveness and cooperativeness of the Prisoners’ Dilemma, we consider the index constructed by Demuynck et al. (2022), starting from the work of Kalai & Kalai (2013). This index – competitiveness-cooperativeness index (CCI) – is based on the unique decomposition of a game into a common-interest game, or cooperative part, and a zero-sum game, or competitive part. Following Duffy and Fehr (2018) and Longo (2022), we consider three stages of an indefinitely repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma game in which we manipulate both CCI (high and low) value and the order these two Prisoner’s Dilemma are played. In addition, we vary the “risk” incentive – i.e., the percentage a player loses when she cooperates against a defector – across treatments (high and low “risk”).

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Meeting ID: 853 1805 6570