Sleep restriction increases coordination failure

Marco Castillo and David Dickinson

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, vol. 200, issue C, 358-370

Abstract: When group outcomes depend on minimal effort (e.g., disease containment, work teams, or group 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.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.06.001

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