a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In organizations, leaders are often paid more than lower-level employees. Social dilemma research also shows that leaders feel entitled to earn more, and because of this, are more inclined to contribute less than an equal share to a public good, which may damage the collective. In two experiments, the social dilemma context is used to examine how group memb...

This paper provides evidence that Social Security benefit claiming decisions are strongly affected by framing and are thus inconsistent with expected utility theory. Using a randomized experiment that controls for both observable and unobservable differences across individuals, we find that the use of a "breakeven analysis" encourages early claiming. Respondents are more likely to delay when la...

Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. Situated between heteronormative racialized stereotypes of the one hand, implicitly white figure lesbian other, are rendered ›impossible subjects.‹ maps they negotiate conflicting loyalties this field they, their own way,...

Today's blockchain designs suffer from a trilemma claiming that no system can simultaneously achieve decentralization, security, and performance scalability. For current systems, as more nodes join the network, efficiency of (computation, communication, storage) stays constant at best. A leading idea for enabling blockchains to scale is notion sharding: different subsets handle portions blockch...