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The Perception and Efficiency of Labour Supply Choices by Pigeons

Author(s) -

Peter B. Morgan,

Don Tustin

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

the economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1468-0297

pISSN - 0013-0133

DOI - 10.2307/2234381

Subject(s) - perception , state (computer science) , sociology , psychology , economics , computer science , algorithm , neuroscience

Hunter and Davison (1982) observed.how pigeons supplied labor by pecking on discs connected to devices allowing access to food. Both the devices and the forces needed to depress the discs were varied widely. This paper models the pigeons' choice problems as a neo-classical type of labor allocation problem. It estimates the paths containing the least effortful allocations of pecks for given total rates of access to food and compares the subjects' actual choices for proximity to the efficient choices. The estimated efficiency levels are high, supporting the neo-classical model. Also shown is that the neo-classical model predicts that the subjects' behavior should be consistent with the melioration model of choice, an alternative model of choice advocated by some psychologists. Copyright 1992 by Royal Economic Society.

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