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Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two … experiments claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test … a commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly …
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects … trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict … that "fairer" players should trust less …
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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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We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise … to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert …
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relevant events. We conduct trust game experiments where the amount sent back by the second player (trustee) is exogenously …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in trust … positively into norms and trust. Our study contributes to the literature on behavioural responses to institutional design and …
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What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust …
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This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility...
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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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