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Social Responsibility in Market Interaction

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Saxler, David - 2015

A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...

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Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters

Wunsch, Conny; Strobl, Renate - 2018

Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...

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Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity

Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Henning, Karla; … - 2020

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 …

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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate; Wunsch, Conny - 2017

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 …

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Social distance and trust: Experimental evidence from a slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013

While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...

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Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Social learning and health insurance enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme

Liu, Hong; Sun, Qi; Zhao, Zhong - 2013

This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that the social network...

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Can microinsurance help prevent child labor? An impact evaluation from Pakistan

Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - 2013

Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...

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Insuring against Health Shocks: Health Insurance and Household Choices

Liu, Kai - 2015

This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total household income and consumption are fully insured against...

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Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and the Firm-Size Distribution

Bailey, James; Webber, Douglas A. - 2015

By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has shown that these mandates likely increase health insurance premiums, which in turn could make it more costly for firms to...

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