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competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … implement a control strategy, which consists of low effort discretion and little or no rent-sharing, or they implement a trust …
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" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, social or self …
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Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this result extends to more natural social interactions involving reciprocal behavior. We provide the...
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whether a charitable donation increases the observing agents' trust in the donor. Our results support these hypotheses and … show that, apart from trust, responses to altruistic acts can have a rewarding or outcome-equalizing purpose. Our findings …
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, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates …
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What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust … of selfish behaviors in the economic context depend strongly on other people's behaviors, but their relationships are …
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with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combiningrepresentative survey data with representative … behavioral data from a social dilemmaexperiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust correlate … wellwith behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilledworkers and people living in …
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reputation for skill acquisition and labor market outcomes in an otherwise competitive market. We find that reputation effects … can explain several puzzling findings in the economics of education, including the fact that competition can, but does not …) that arises when schools can enhance their reputation by positively selecting their students. This leads to excess demand …
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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
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
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