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This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 … villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At … the same time, there is significant social distance among various faith groups in our data: both Hindus and Muslims trust …
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We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially … are, as well as actual trust and trustworthiness are measured incentive compatibly. We find that interpersonal similarity … in religiosity and affiliation promote trust through beliefs of reciprocity. Religious participants also believe that …
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classic simple bargaining games (ultimatum, dictator, and trust games). Specifically, we experimentally manipulate sleep … time‐of‐day of the decisions. We find a robust result of increased greed, reduced trust, and reduced trustworthiness …
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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 socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers’ prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
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more effective when contracts are unverifiable because they help market participants overcome problems of trust. On the …
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In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...
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This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...
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We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary …
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- specifically the trust environment - and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … endogenously leads to variation in organizational form. We prime trust using past performance from a pilot study and demonstrate … that the level of trust within an organization affects division of labor and consequently organizational productivity. This …
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Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural …-day training on collective commercialization. We use this variation to identify effects on intra-group trust, both direct treatment … measures of trust in leaders' competence and motives and of trust in members we find that participating in the training …
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