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Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...
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Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
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We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub-optimal equilibrium whereby (i) rooted French exhibit...
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voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust …
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We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate...
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Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many contractual relationships. In a series of eight laboratory gift-exchange experiments, we show that incentive contracts can lead to crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after...
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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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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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- 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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, and trust from 196 Uruguayan managers (half of them employed in worker cooperatives) and 92 first-year undergraduate … across other preference domains, such as impatience, trust, and reciprocity. …
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