Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: ZHIXIN Dai
Author-Name-First: ZHIXIN
Author-Name-Last: Dai
Author-Name: Jiwei Zheng
Author-Name-First: Jiwei
Author-Name-Last: Zheng
Author-Name: Daniel J. Zizzo
Author-Name-First: Daniel J.
Author-Name-Last: Zizzo
Title: Theories of reasoning and focal point play with a matched non-student sample
Abstract: We present a coordination game experiment testing the robustness of the predictive power of level-k reasoning and team reasoning in a sample of Chinese tax administrators that is matched for likely socio-economic characteristics with our student sample. We show how the incidence of coordination game play is virtually identical between Chinese tax administrators and university students. However, relatively to non-students, students are comparatively more attracted by the focal point under team reasoning when this has equal payoffs and the other outcomes do not.
Creation-Date: 2020
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2020_017.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 305138067
Classification-JEL: C72, C78, C91
Keywords: external validity, non-student sample, focal points, team reasoning, level-k, coordination games
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:305138067