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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit - 2009

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido - 2016

return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …

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Broadband Internet and Social Capital

Geraci, Andrea - 2018

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...

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Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

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 …, are less likely to trust than those in an isomorphic role in the ultimatum game. We also uncover the underlying mechanism …

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Social Networks

de Martí, Joan - 2009

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …

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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane - 2014

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...

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