This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … no religion made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate with … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …

-run persistence of observed discrimination against certain minorities in the labor market. The experiment provides some evidence … experiment, failing to generate a Self-Confirming Equilibrium driven by wrong beliefs. The strategy method provides additional …

experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …

This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions … the actual and expected pro-social behavior of others. This experiment eliminates strategic influences and thus …

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms …—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization, human capital …