Sequential vs simultaneous schelling models: experimental evidence
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31550Metadata
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Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica
Materia
Schelling models Economic experiments Segregation
Date
2009Referencia bibliográfica
Benito, J.M.; et al. Sequential vs simultaneous schelling models: experimental evidence. Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2009). (The Papers; 09/06). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31550]
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Financial support from the MCI (SEJ2006-11510/ECON, SEJ2007-62081/ECON, ECO2008-04576/ECON and ECO2008-06395-05-03), Junta de Andalucia Excelencia (P07.SEJ.02547) and Instituto de la Mujer (2008.031) is gratefully acknowledged.Abstract
This work shows the results of experiments where subjects play the Schelling's spatial proximity model (1969, 1971a), in which choices are made sequentially, and a variation of it where the decision-making is simultaneous. The results of the sequential experiments are identical to Schelling's prediction: subjects finish in a segregated equilibrium. Likewise, in the variant of simultaneous decision the same result is reached: segregation. Subjects’ heterogeneity generates a series of focal points in the first round; the subjects in order to locate themselves use these focal points immediately, and as a result, the segregation takes place again.