observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and … power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with …

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades … 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 unsusceptible …

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 …

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced … volume and price volatility. We also find an unexpected gender effect in team composition, manifesting itself in more extreme … participants generally, we conjecture that they may be due to factors specific to the psychology of decision-making in male …