One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana
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Everyday, we are bombarded with periodic, exogenous appeals and instructions on how to behave. How do these appeals and instructions affect subsequent coordination? Using experimental methods, we investigate how a one-time exogenous instruction affects subsequent coordination among individuals in a lab. Participants play a minimum effort game repeated 5 times under fixed matching with a one-time behavioral instruction in either the first or second round. Since coordination behavior may vary across countries, we run experiments in Denmark, Spain and Ghana, and map cross-country rankings in coordination with known national measures of fractualization, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. Our results show that exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination, with earlier interventions yielding better coordination than later interventions. We also find that cross-country rankings in coordination map with published national measures of fractualization, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e0187840 |
Journal | P L o S One |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 11 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
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