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the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to …
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How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …
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In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's expectation about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. Recent experimental studies as well as surveys have asked participants to state their beliefs explicitly, but little is known about the causal relation...
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The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment … a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit social appropriateness norm of actions in the bribery game and the …
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct …
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equilibrium strategy. Exclusion has a positive impact on cooperation when it is followed by a quick rather than a slow … retaliation. Post-exclusion cooperation and forgiveness depend not only on the length of exclusion but also on the perceived …
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experiment. This difference is higher the higher is the family level of income and the parental education status of the subjects …
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working on projects together) are strongly related to various dimensions of social capital, from beliefs in cooperation to … cooperation and students' involvement in civic life. A two-stage least square strategy provides evidence that teaching practices …
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