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Caste and punishment : the legacy of caste culture in norm enforcement
Hoff, Karla Ruth; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - 2009
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals'...
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Institutions, opportunism and prosocial behavior : some experimental evidence
Cabrales, Antonio; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Hernán … - 2020
Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate the demand for different levels of institutions that...
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Directed giving : evidence from an inter-household transfer experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts …" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how … gift exchange should be organized if the principal's goal is to increase the performance of a reciprocal agent …
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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals …. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill … signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among which we ask a large representative sample of German human …
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Unequal bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
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Asymmetry of information within family networks
De Weerdt, Joachim; Génicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - 2014
exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … or an exchange motive with the recipient holding all the bargaining power. …
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On market forces and human evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate...
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Control rights in public-private partnerships
Francesconi, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...
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