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Trust issues: Evidence on the intergenerational trust transmission among children of immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 175-196
This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying children of immigrants in 29 European … countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother's side, and the transmission is … significantly stronger than on the father's side. The transmission is stronger in high trust countries. Building trust in high trust …
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You can’t be happier than your wife. Happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 1, pp. 110-130
Based on three large panel surveys, this paper shows that happiness gaps between spouses are a good predictor of future divorce. The effect of happiness gaps is asymmetric: couples are more likely to break-up when the woman is the less happy partner. De facto, divorces appear to be initiated...
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Integrating the human sciences to evolve effective policies
Biglan, Anthony; Cody, Christine - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) S, pp. 152-152
This paper describes an evolutionary perspective on human development and wellbeing and contrasts it with the model of self-interest that is prominent in economics. The two approaches have considerably different implications for how human wellbeing might be improved. Research in psychology,...
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Constructing gender differences in the economics lab
Boschini, Anne; Muren, Astri; Persson, Mats - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 3, pp. 741-752
We study the effects of experimental design on male and female behavior in a dictator game. Following social identity theory we investigate how experimental procedure may affect outcome through gender priming, i.e. the activation of gender stereotypes specifying that women behave altruistically...
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Social norms of sharing in high school: Teen giving in the dictator game
Eckel, Catherine; Grossman, Philip J.; Johnson, Cathleen A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 3, pp. 603-612
We conduct a study of altruistic behavior among high school students using the dictator game. We find a much stronger norm of equal splitting than previously observed in the typical university student population, with almost 45% of high school subjects choosing an equal split of the endowment....
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Learning and evolution of altruistic preferences in the Centipede Game
Gamba, Astrid - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 85 (2013) C, pp. 112-117
Several studies show that evolution favors non-selfish preferences only if preference types are observable. We present a new evolutionary scenario applied to the Centipede Game, where we adopt self-confirming equilibrium to capture behavior. We show that altruism may be evolutionarily successful...
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Costly information and the evolution of self-organization in a small, complex economy
Wilson, James; Hill, J.; Kersula, M.; Wilson, C.L.; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) S, pp. 76-76
The core idea of evolution is that order in living systems emerges from a simple process of variation and selection. In biological systems we usually understand the source of variation as best described by the mechanisms of genetics. If human social systems are evolutionary systems, however, it...
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Quality certification for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: Experimental evidence
Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 159 (2019), pp. 75-100
, participants presented with a quality certificate chose higher donations by around 10% and reported higher trust in the same …
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Signaling smarts? Revealed preferences for self and social perceptions of intelligence
McManus, T. Clay; Rao, Justin M. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 110 (2015) C, pp. 106-118
findings from the altruism and trust literature. Our experimental design can be easily adapted to study image motives in a …
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Social capital and entrepreneurial activity: A pseudo-panel approach
Kim, Byung-Yeon; Kang, Youngho - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 47-60
accounts for differences in entrepreneurial activities. The findings suggest that trust measured by trust either in strangers …
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