Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 202
Cover Image
Literacy Traps : Society-Wide Education and Individual Skill Premia
Atal, Vidya - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764476
Cover Image
Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2012
Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are becoming increasingly common. However the potential for mistargeting of program funds is high. This paper focuses on the social consequences arising from misallocation of resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103464
Cover Image
Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital : Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123919
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153178
Cover Image
Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
raises the other players' beliefs about the donorsﾒ trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136037
Cover Image
Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange : Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2016
induce perceptions of trustworthiness and trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987982
Cover Image
Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
Burks, Stephen V. - 2010
Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple statistical comparisons (for example, whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146457
Cover Image
Gender and Self-Selection into a Competitive Environment : Are Women More Overconfident than Men?
Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2021
Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317063
Cover Image
Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment
Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - 2021
-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential … trust game, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. Our main … accordingly. Furthermore, we provide evidence of in-group favoritism, i.e., people trust strangers from their own district …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317159
Cover Image
Immigrant Assimilation, Trust and Social Capital
Cox, James C. - 2010
Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample … of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first … trust other immigrants. Immigrants appear to be less trustworthy overall but this finding disappears when we control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139966