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Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups

Sutter, M.; Kocher, M. G. - The Field Experiments Website - 2006

We examine the degree of trust and trustworthiness in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different age groups, ranging from 8-year-olds to retired persons. Although both trust and trustworthiness have been identified as fundamental pillars for efficient economic...

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Gift Exchange within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bellemare, Charles - The Field Experiments Website - 2007

We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting...

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Relative Position, Prices of Sacrifice and Reciprocity: An Experimental Study Using Individual Decisions

Brandts, Jordi; Fatás, Enrique; Lagos, Francisco - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

We use experimental data to obtain a detailed description of individuals' pro-sociality. Participants are faced with a large number of decisions involving variations in the tradeoffs between own and others' payoffs, as well as in other potentially important factors like individuals' positions...

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A Theory of Sequential Reciprocity

Dufwenberg, M.; Kirchsteiger, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

Many experimental studies indicate that people are motivated by reciprocity. Rabin (1993) develops techniques for incorporating such concerns into game theory and economics. His model, however, does not fare well when applied to situations with an interesting dynamic structure (like many...

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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the "Children of the Wall"

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

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Knowledge society and crime: an ambiguous relation

Pelletan, Jacques - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

conditions under which the involvement of a country in a “knowledge society” produces a decrease in crime level. …

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The Effect of Local Crime on Well-Being: Evidence for Germany

Krekel, Christian; Poprawe, Marie L. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of local crime on well-being in Germany, using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a novel data set constructed from official police crime statistics, covering both counties and urban … districts for the time period between 1994 and 2012. We find that local area crime has a significantly negative impact on life …

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Stealing to Survive : Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France

Galbiati, Roberto; Caroli, Eve; Bignon, Vincent - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and … we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis … this shock to identify its impact on property and violent crime rates, as well as minor offences. Our estimates suggest …

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