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joannopoulos ab initio physics research group at mit. our members, papers, and research in photonic crystals and ab initio materials properties.

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welcome to the community of the scientists of the institute for nuclear research of the russian academy of sciences who are specialized in the field of atomic nucleus, elementary particle and cosmic ray physics and neutrino astrophysics, вас приветствует сообщество учёных института ядерных исследований российской академии наук (ияи ран), ведущих фундаментальные исследования в области физики атомного ядра, элементарных частиц, физики космических лучей и нейтринной астрофизики

arxiv.org

A system of non-tradable credits that flow between individuals like karma, hence proposed under that name, is a mechanism for repeated resource allocation that comes with attractive efficiency and fairness properties, in theory. In this study, we test karma in an online experiment in which human subjects repeatedly compete for a resource with time-varying and stochastic individual preferences or urgency to acquire the resource. We confirm that karma has significant and sustained welfare benefits even in a population with no prior training. We identify mechanism usage in contexts with sporadic high urgency, more so than with frequent moderate urgency, and implemented as a simple (binary) karma bidding scheme as particularly effective for welfare improvements: relatively larger aggregate efficiency gains are realized that are (almost) Pareto superior. These findings provide guidance for further testing and for future implementation plans of such mechanisms in the real world.