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We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child … adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families …
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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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This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....
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social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …
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betrayal aversion for those who expect substantial contributions by others. This is consistent with their social risk taking in … optimistic ones typically contribute to the public good and thus take the social risk of being exploited. …
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children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …
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This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …
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and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
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and start over as new sellers. Buyer trust and seller trustworthiness decrease significantly when sellers can erase their … ratings. With identity changes, trust is particularly low towards new sellers since buyers cannot discriminate between truly …
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This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the … unilateral divorce reforms across the US. According to the results, the divorce revolution seems to have had some effect on trust … effects for women with an additional year of exposure being associated with a 4 percentage point lower generalized trust in …
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