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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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Trust and participation in social networks are inherently interrelated. We make use of India's demonetization policy … trust. We use first-hand quantitative and qualitative data from rural South India and control for individual characteristics … (personality traits, cognitive ability) that could influence network formation and trust, finding that social interactions have a …
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-essential visitation, we find that: stay-at-home orders reduce mobility by about 8-10 percentage points; high-trust counties decrease their … mobility significantly more than low-trust counties post-lockdown; and counties with relatively more self-declared democrats … especially large for trust in the press, and relatively smaller for trust in science, medicine or government. …
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against low reciprocity to the standard trust game. We compare two different mechanisms, the private (purchase) and the social …
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This paper develops a tractable model of a society hit by a viral pandemic. It is sufficiently rich so as to relate the optimal decisions of the policymaker to the underlying characteristics of this society, in terms of preferences, social mores and economic structures. This allows us to make...
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What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. We find similar negative effects on confidence in public...
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not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society - trust - and explore how … trust correlates with the individual experiences of the pandemic. The analysis is based on a new global survey - 'Life with … are unemployed exhibit lower trust in people, institutions, and in general. By contrast, no such differences exist for …
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against low reciprocity to the standard trust game. We compare two different mechanisms, the private (purchase) and the social …
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