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Table 1 Household-level variables

From: Self-enforcing agreement in cooperative teams: an agent-based modeling approach

Variable

Data type

Value

Shirk status (shirk)

Boolean

1 if shirk, 0 otherwise

Exit status (exit)

Boolean

1 if shirk, 0 otherwise

Type status (j-type)

Boolean

1 if j-type, 0 otherwise

Leisure preference (alpha)

Floating-point

[0, 1]

Time preference (delta)

Floating-point

[0, 1]

Marginal product of effort (theta)

Integer

[1, 10]

Fixed cost (fixcost)

Integer

[5, 30]

Working effort (effort)

Floating-point

Model output

Output yield by production (yield)

Floating-point

Model output

Utility (utility)

Floating-point

Model output

Sustained discount rate (discount a)

Floating-point

Model output

  1. aSustained discount rate is an indicator provided in Dong and Dow (1993). It measure how cooperation is sustained for households. It can be used to indicate the sustainability of a team (this is elaborated in the “Results” section)