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selection? In this paper we address this question and collect new information on workplace disclosure to separate out …/bisexual workers earn about 3 to 4 percent less than other men. Our disclosure estimates, however, provide little evidence that the …
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survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a … power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with …
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of trustworthiness, could generate the non-monotonic relationship between trust and income. Highly trustworthy … risk, to be cheated more often and ultimately perform less well than those who happen to have a trustworthiness level close … to the mean of the population. On the other hand, the low-trustworthiness types form beliefs that are too conservative …
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We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general … reference point. Our basic finding is that given past income, higher current income increases trustworthiness and, given current … income, higher past income reduces trustworthiness. Past income determines the level of financial aspirations and whether or …
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, provided these activities work as signals of trustworthiness. This paper shows that donating money to an NGO substantially … raises the other players' beliefs about the donors' trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …
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When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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trust beliefs after several rounds of game-play. Moreover, we show that one's own type/trustworthiness can be traced back to …
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We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in … reduce trust and trustworthiness. …
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the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
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observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
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