Coerced coordination, not cooperation

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x15000540 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Montserrat Soler ◽

Hillary L. Lenfesty

Keyword(s):

Costs And Benefits ◽

Large Group ◽

Cooperative Enterprises ◽

Intragroup Competition

AbstractNorenzayan et al. propose that Big God (BG) religions are large-group cooperative enterprises that promote internal harmony and higher fertility, resulting in “mutually beneficial exchanges” for those involved. We examine the possible distributions of costs and benefits within BG religions and propose that they are, instead, successful coordinating mechanisms that rely on intragroup competition and exploitation between the classes and sexes.

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Let Them Have Choice: Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Toward an Individual Exchange

American Economic Journal Economic Policy ◽

10.1257/pol.5.1.32 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 32-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Leemore Dafny ◽

Kate Ho ◽

Mauricio Varela

Keyword(s):

Health Insurance ◽

Health Plans ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Welfare Gain ◽

Large Group

Most nonelderly Americans purchase health insurance through their employers, which sponsor a limited number of plans. Using a panel dataset representing over ten million insured lives, we estimate employees' preferences for different health plans and use the estimates to predict their choices if more plans were made available to them on the same terms, i.e., with equivalent subsidies and at large-group prices. Using conservative assumptions, we estimate a median welfare gain of 13 percent of premiums. A proper accounting of the costs and benefits of a transition from employer-sponsored to individually-purchased insurance should include this nontrivial gain. (JEL G22, I13, J32)

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CommuniCubes

Audience Response Systems in Higher Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-947-2.ch021 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 321-333 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stephen J. Bostock ◽

Julie A. Hulme ◽

Mark A. Davys

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Group Interaction ◽

Student Response ◽

Electronic Voting ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Student Group ◽

Large Group ◽

Lecture Theatre ◽

Modes Of Engagement

This chapter describes an innovation supporting interaction between a teacher, and a student group. It argues that there are five modes of engagement for students in groups. The mode of group interaction with a teacher can benefit from mediation by a voting, or response, technology. An exploratory pilot study of a novel, nonelectronic technology to support this mode is described. CommuniCubes enable every student in a group to vote individually on options presented to them. They were used by a large group in a stepped, lecture theatre, and by smaller groups in seminar rooms. The evaluation found the overall student response to be positive. The reasons students gave for CommuniCubes being both helpful and unhelpful to their learning are summarized. The costs and benefits of this technology and electronic voting devices are compared, and the issues for further research are discussed.

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Using the research on intergroup conflict in nonhuman animals to help inform patterns of human intergroup conflict

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19000827 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Amanda R. Ridley ◽

Melanie O. Mirville

Keyword(s):

Large Body ◽

Nonhuman Animal ◽

Intergroup Conflict ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Animal Groups ◽

Interesting Article ◽

Nonhuman Animals

Abstract There is a large body of research on conflict in nonhuman animal groups that measures the costs and benefits of intergroup conflict, and we suggest that much of this evidence is missing from De Dreu and Gross's interesting article. It is a shame this work has been missed, because it provides evidence for interesting ideas put forward in the article.

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Zone-axis ALCHEMI for the rapid assessment of site occupancies in garnets

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100144905 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 706-707

Author(s):

M.T. Otten ◽

P.R. Buseck

Keyword(s):

Single Crystals ◽

Rapid Assessment ◽

Site Occupancy ◽

Zone Axis ◽

Synthetic Compounds ◽

X Ray ◽

Large Group ◽

Crystallographic Planes

ALCHEMI (Atom Location by CHannelling-Enhanced Microanalysis) is a TEM technique for determining site occupancies in single crystals. The method uses the channelling of incident electrons along specific crystallographic planes. This channelling results in enhanced x-ray emission from the atoms on those planes, thereby providing the required site-occupancy information. ALCHEMI has been applied with success to spinel, olivine and feldspar. For the garnets, which form a large group of important minerals and synthetic compounds, the channelling effect is weaker, and significant results are more difficult to obtain. It was found, however, that the channelling effect is pronounced for low-index zone-axis orientations, yielding a method for assessing site occupancies that is rapid and easy to perform.

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