The impact of culture on non-kin cooperation has been singled out as critical for economic activity. However, causal … evidence of culture’s influence on cooperation remains scant. In this paper we provide such evidence, focusing on two key … components of culture: preferences and beliefs. Adopting the view that culture is one aspect of an individual’s multi …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …

nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other …

We revisit Max Weber’s hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …

experience with immigration can curb nationalism. …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …