TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Castillo, Marco
AU  - Dickinson, David L.
        TI  - Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure
        PY  - 2020/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13242
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13242
        AB  - When group outcomes depend on minimal effort (e.g., disease containment, work teams, or indigenous hunt success), a classic coordination problem exists. Using a well-established paradigm, we examine how a common cognitive state (insufficient sleep) impacts coordination outcomes. Our data indicate that insufficient sleep increases coordination failure costs, which suggests that the sleep or, more generally, cognitive composition of a group might determine its ability to escape from a trap of costly miscoordination and wasted cooperative efforts. These findings are first evidence of the potentially large externality of a commonly experienced biological state (insufficient sleep) that has infiltrated many societies.
        KW  - cooperative dilemma
KW  - sleep
KW  - coordination games
        ER  -