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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2018
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855632
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Ethnic geography : measurement and evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747456
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew - 2013
This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080136
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153309
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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
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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 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/10011573312
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Measuring individual risk attitudes in the lab : task or ask? ; an empirical comparison
Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250131
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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
Meier, Stephan - 2014
and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053535
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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722400
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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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