Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure

Marco Castillo () and David Dickinson
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Marco Castillo: Texas A&M University

No 13242, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: cooperative dilemma; sleep; coordination games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2020-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-gth, nep-hea and nep-neu
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Published - revised version published as 'Sleep restriction increases coordination failure' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 358 - 370.

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