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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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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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How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust … country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings … from one strand of the fractured literature – the WVS trust question captures expectations about others' trustworthiness …
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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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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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We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …
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