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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit - 2009

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido - 2017

return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …

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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido - 2016

return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977332

Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …

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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane - 2013

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...

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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane - 2014

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050629

Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism : A Comparison of Turkish People Living in Turkey and Germany

Akkemik, K. Ali - 2017

In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of cultural differences on intergenerational altruism in Turkish people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online...

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Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

Deckers, Thomas - 2017

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions Evidence from a Field Experiment

Adena, Maja - 2014

When asking for donations, charitable organizations often use suggestions concerning the amount of potential contributions. In our randomized field experiment, opera visitors received solicitation letters asking to support a social youth project organized by the opera house. The three different...

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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Deckers, Thomas - 2015

We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We measure a family's SES by the mother's and...

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