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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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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence
Falk, Armin - 2017
This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700465
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Does social capital matter? : a study of hit-and-run in US counties
Castriota, Stefano; Rondinella, Sandro; Tonin, Mirco - 2022
We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of whether social capital matters for behaviour in extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013176910
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Civic capital in two cultures : the nature of cooperation in Romania and USA
Ellingsen, Tore; Herrmann, Benedikt; Nowak, Martin A.; … - 2012 - This version: November 2012
We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards and punishments. U.S. groups perform well because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688524
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior
Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013
In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations ́power to shape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223454
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Deviant or wrong? : the effects of norm information on the efficacy of punishment
Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2021
of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510229
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Surfing alone? : the Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130242
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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540782
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Past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes in Europe
Gavresi, Despina; Litina, Anastasia - 2021
), are currently more prone to voting for populist parties, and manifest lower trust both in national and European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694152