We analyze whether the availability of formal insurance products affects informal solidarity transfers in two … minimizes strategic concerns. The introduction of an insurance treatment alters solidarity in both experiments. We find crowding …

In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aiming at …

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … subjects. The reduction of solidarity is driven by a change in giving behaviour of persons with the risky project. Compared to … to show solidarity is influenced by both the desire for own compensation and attributions of responsibility. Our findings …

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 …