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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 55, highly … favoring the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those …

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Social Relationships and Trust

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social … increase in trust following a reduction in social distance comes from the fact that trustors are much more inclined to follow … trust is mainly driven by social preferences. Nevertheless, trustors underestimate their friend's intrinsic motivation to …

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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e....

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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens

Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The article discusses the conflict of goals between fair compensation for performance and equitable support based on need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare...

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The Attitudes towards the Euro: An Empirical Study Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Isengard, Bettina; Schneider, Thorsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper investigates the attitudes towards the Euro and their changes over time in Germany by using longitudinal micro data from the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). We observe that a large part of the German population was worried about the new currency before its implementation....

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Zu wenig Einfluss des ökonomischen Sachverstands? Empirische Befunde zum Einfluss von Ökonomen und anderen Wissenschaftlern auf die Wirtschaftspolitik

Haucap, Justus; Thomas, Tobias; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Das Papier zeigt, dass die seit Jahrzehnten andauernde Klagen wissenschaftlich tätiger Ökonomen,dass Öffentlichkeit und Politik nicht genug auf Ergebnisse der ökonomischen Forschung hören,zumindest für Deutschland im Quervergleich zu anderen Wissenschaften in Bezug auf das...

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Key Players and Key Groups in Teams: A Network Approach Using Soccer Data

Sarangi, Sudipta; Unlu, Emre - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper provides a way of evaluating a player's contribution to her team and relates her effort to her salaries. We collect data from UEFA Euro 2008 Tournament and construct the passing network of each team. Then we determine the key player in the game while ranking all the other players too....

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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined?: Evidence from British Immigrants

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...

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A League of Their Own: Female Soccer, Male Legacy and Women's Empowerment

Cho, Seo-Young - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

This paper investigates whether male soccer tradition can predict the success of female soccer. Different from the existing literature, this paper utilizes panel data covering 175 countries during the 1991-2011 period, capturing country heterogeneity effects and time trends. An instrumental...

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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...

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