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beliefs and actions among Muslim subjects. There is taste-based discrimination but no statistical discrimination. All our …
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We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from …, discrimination against migrants does not differ by the perceived educational background of the email sender. However, it does differ … shares, and lower financial resources. Discrimination on the child care market likely perpetuates existing inequalities of …
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empirically in a large scale online experiment and in the laboratory. In both experiments, the second mover’s lying propensity …
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trembling-hand perfect equilibrium under selfish preferences even towards the end of our experiment. The likely reasons for our …
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Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status …, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics …
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behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
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Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
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This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
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prosocial behavior. We conduct a large-scale online experiment where we add the possibility of purchasing insurance to safeguard …
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