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 … beliefs-based mechanism for the effects of religious identity. More religious subjects expect greater prosociality/reciprocity …

Savings and Credit Associations (Roscas), a popular group-based financial institution world-wide, in the aftermath of the 2004 …

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …

organizational structure impacts the effectiveness of reciprocity and to derive specific empirical predictions. We use the UK …-WERS workplace compensation data set to confirm the predictions of our extended model. -- Optimal contracts ; reciprocity …

making ; choice behavior ; public goods ; experimental economics ; altruism ; fairness ; conditional reciprocity …

behavior of students and the general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two …

reduces reciprocity. -- trust ; reciprocity ; investment game ; group membership ; competition …This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … a laboratory one-shot trust game. To analyze these effects, we apply a 2x2 design. We induce group membership by letting …

model does substantially better than other theories in organizing the data. -- reciprocity ; fairness ; real effort …