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We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the …
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We introduce “group cohesion” to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …
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obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are …
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We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team … allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team … exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …
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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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framed field experiment with actual employment agents we test mechanisms to increase collaboration. We find that financial …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The contract may contain two types of...
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