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Dohmen, Thomas; Altmann, Steffen; Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict that "fairer" players should trust less.

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Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments …

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Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures

Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two …

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Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

using a large representative survey that corroborates an important hypothesis arising from laboratory experiments …

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Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline

Smith, James P.; Tian, Meng; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

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Incentive Design and Trust: Comparing the Effects of Tournament and Team-Based Incentives on Trust

Oxoby, Robert J.; Friedrich, Colette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which different incentive mechanisms emphasize competition (via the perceived intentions of others) and entitlements (via the perceived property rights) will affect individuals’...

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Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work systems" are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...

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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …

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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Liu, Hong; Fang, Hai; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …

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