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Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-05. We exploit two...

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Of Religion and Redemption: Evidence from Default on Islamic Loans

Baele, Lieven; Farooq, Moazzam; Ongena, Steven - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Do religious beliefs affect real economic decisions? We investigate this fundamental question by comparing default rates on conventional and Islamic loans using a comprehensive monthly dataset from Pakistan that follows more than 150,000 loans over the period 2006:04 to 2008:12. We find robust...

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(Un)Happiness in Transition

Guriev, Sergei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report abnormally low levels of life satisfaction. Using data from the World Values Survey and other sources, we study various explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that...

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Competition and Well-Being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper experimentally studies the effects of competition in an environment where people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that, in comparison with no competition, the presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any gains in earnings for the...

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Decision-making Procedures: A General Theory and Its Field Experimental Test

Aldashev, Gani; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Sebald, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

It is a persistent finding in psychology and experimental economics that people's behavior is not only shaped by outcomes but also by decision-making procedures. In this paper we develop a general framework capable of modelling these procedural concerns. Within the context of psychological games...

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Neuroeconomic Foundation of Trust and Social Preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Kosfeld, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper discusses recent neuroeconomic evidence related to other-regarding behaviours and the decision to trust in other people’s other-regarding behaviour. This evidence supports the view that people derive non-pecuniary utility (i) from mutual cooperation in social dilemma (SD) games and...

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Culture: Persistence and Evolution

Giavazzi, Francesco; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper presents evidence on the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a wide range of values and beliefs of different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural attitudes. Some, for instance deep personal religious...

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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...

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The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Holmlund, Helena; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …

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Ethnicity and Spatial Externalities in Crime

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop a model where the decision to commit a crime in a neighboring area is a positive function of the percentage … of same-race individuals residing in that area since they can provide crucial information on crime possibilities. The … model then predicts a positive spatial correlation in crime between different contiguous areas; this correlation is higher …

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