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the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
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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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Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades … claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test a … commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly unsusceptible …
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Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample … of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first … trust other immigrants. Immigrants appear to be less trustworthy overall but this finding disappears when we control for …
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representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and … power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with …
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We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
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paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
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We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a say in who joins their group. We find that enough...
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We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
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To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
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