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We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour, or by mediating parental access to social resources....
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questions in the context of a trust game by asking participants directly about their notions of cheating. We find that: i) both … parties to a trust exchange have implicit notions of what constitutes cheating even in a context without promises or messages …; ii) these notions are not unique – the vast majority of senders would feel cheated by a negative return on their trust …
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trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
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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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A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate … the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump …-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available in the European Social Survey. We show that heterogeneity of trust …
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This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...
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We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment, behavioral preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that...
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raises the other players' beliefs about the donorsメ trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …
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induce perceptions of trustworthiness and trust …
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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...
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