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We carried out two multinational surveys to analyze aspirations and intentions to emigrate, and how these are linked to … identify two groups that have been largely neglected in previous research on migration aspirations and intentions: those who …
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Unfair intentions provoke negative reciprocity from others, making their concealment potentially beneficial. This paper … explores whether people hide their unfair intentions from others and how hiding intentions is itself perceived in fairness … intentions, establishing that people consider not only unkind intentions but also hiding intentions unfair. When choosing whether …
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A new line of theoretical and empirical literature emphasizes the pivotal role of fair institutions for growth. We present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple cross-country regression supporting this view. We model an economy with an unequal distribution of property rights, in which...
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opportunity and the conscious decision to misreport, reveals that more reflection time increases awareness of the misreporting … awareness under time pressure we conclude that honesty is the intuitive response. …
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Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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While trust and trustworthiness provide a fundamental foundation for human relationships, little is known about how … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on … trusting and trustworthy behavior elicited with the use of the seminal trust game (Berg et al., 1995) and with games …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations' power to shape...
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the lab - here the amount sent in a trust game (Berg, Dickaut, McCabe, 1995). As it turns out, the measures themselves are …. Moreover, with respect to behaviour in the trust game, we find a high re-test stability of transfers (p = .70). This further …
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Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …
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