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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China, using a specially designed sample survey relating to 2011. The underlying hypothesis is that the lifestyle and attitudes of ethnic minorities contribute to their happiness. ...

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Social Capital and Development

Fafchamps, Marcel - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to reflect, from an economist`s point of view, on the methodological issues raised by the study of social capital. This term has been used in many different ways to cover a broad range of phenomena (Durlauf & Fafchamps 2002). Perhaps it is best seen as a way of...

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Does Social Judgement Diminish Rule Breaking?

Salmon, Timothy C.; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

We experimentally investigate the extent to which social obervability of one's actions and the possibility of social non-monetary judgment affect the decision to engage in rule breaking behavior. We consider three rule bfeaking scenarios - theft, bribery and embezzlement - in the absence of...

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Evaluating Treatment Protocols using Data Combination

Bhattacharya, Debopam - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

In real-life, individuals are often assigned to binary treatments according to existing treatment protocols. Such protocols, when designed with â€œtaste-basedâ€ motives, would be productively inefficient in that the expected returns to treatment for the marginal treatment recipient...

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Are University Admissions Academically Fair?

Bhattacharya, Debopam; Kanaya, Shin; Stevens, Margaret - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

High-profile universities often face public criticism for undermining academic merit and promoting social elitism/engineering through their admissions-process. In this paper, we develop an empirical test for whether access to selective universities is meritocratic. We assume that students who...

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Do employers trust workers too little? An experimental study of trust in the labour market

Falco, Paolo; Caria, Stefano A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We conduct a field experiment to investigate employers' trust in workers. A sample of real entrepreneurs and workers … (trust) an employee, who can in turn choose whether to exert effort (trustworthiness) in the real-effort task. By comparing …-optimal trust. Expectations are largely inelastic with respect to news and negative signals have a strong (downward) effect than …

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The Fragility and Robustness of Trust

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Slonim, Robert L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

Although it is well known that trust is an important component of the fulfilment of incomplete contracts, less is known …

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Rational and Biased Trust

Barr, Abigail - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective …

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Trust and Expected Trustworthiness: An experimental investigation

Barr, Abigail - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

An economic experiment involving separate sessions in 24 small, tightly knit communities reveals that trust is higher …

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Inferring Repeated Game Strategies From Actions: Evidence From Trust Game Experiments

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Slonim, Robert L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

This paper is empirical study, using new experimental data, of repeated game strategies in trust games; its goal is to … indefinitely repeated trust games we infer trigger strategies that are consistent with equilibria. In finitely repeated games we …

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