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Determinants of trust : the role of personal experiences

Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2019

Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences … likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions … social experiences - either being paid or not being paid by a peer subject for a task - and afterwards measure participant …

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Gender roles and the gender expectations gap

D'Acunto, Francesco; Malmendier, Ulrike; Weber, Michael - 2020

Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in...

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The trading response of individual investors to local bankruptcies

Laudenbach, Christine; Loos, Benjamin; Pirschel, Jenny; … - 2020

coverage in local newspapers. Our findings suggest that non-informative local experiences that make downside risks of stock …

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Attention to the macroeconomy

Link, Sebastian; Peichl, Andreas; Roth, Christopher; … - 2023

professional forecasts. Third, we study the role of experiences as a potential driver of attention. Consistent with similarity …-based recall, individuals with past experiences of adverse inflation outcomes pay more attention to inflation in response to the …

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Does birthplace diversity affect economic complexity? : cross-country evidence

Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2019

We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated with economic complexity. This holds particularly for...

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Team production, gender diversity, and male courtship behavior

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2015

This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes expected team production if (i) men and women have similar...

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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state

Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018

We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on the prevalence of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. The...

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Diversity and conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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Increasing workplace diversity : evidence from a recruiting experiment at a Fortune 500 company

Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2018 - This version: April 11, 2018

The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities. White males occupy most high-profile positions in the largest U.S. corporations whereas African Americans, Hispanics, and women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles....

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Diversity, social goods provision, and performance in the firm

Ellison, Sara; Greenbaum, Jeffrey; Mullin, Wallace P. - 2010

The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods may be important elements of the smooth functioning of an office, but...

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