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Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...

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Is social responsibility a normal good?

Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A. - 2018

We investigate whether growth in consumer income causes an increased willingness to pay to mitigate negative externalities from consumption. Correlational field evidence suggests a positive relationship between income and social responsibility. To investigate a causal link, we conduct a...

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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior

Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020

We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...

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Do markets erode social responsibility?

Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto; Yao, Lan - 2014

This paper studies socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs mitigates the externality. Our first study, conducted in...

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Advice and behavior in intergenerational: Ultimatum games: An experimental approach

Schotter, Andrew; Sopher, Barry - 2000

In the real world, when people play games, they often receive advice from those that have played it before them. Such advice can facilitate the creation of a convention of behavior. This paper studies the impact of advice on the behavior subjects who engage in a non-overlapping generational...

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Assimilation through marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012

which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of … locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the culture and the national identity of the host country. We use a search … culture or the immigrants take on the natives' culture. In the first case we will see new cultures developing and the local …

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Born to be an entrepreneur? How cultural origin affects entrepreneurship

Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018

Persistent differences in entrepreneurial activity between regions and countries remain unexplained. This paper argues that cultural heritage is an important determinant. We exploit a quasi-experimental setting comparing entrepreneurial activities of individuals with different cultural ancestry...

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Gender, culture and STEM: Counter-intuitive patterns in Arab society

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2019

Arab society in Israel offers a counter-example, which calls into question the hypothesis that the male advantage in STEM decreases as gender equality in society increases. Analyzing administrative longitudinal data on students in Hebrew- and Arabic-language schools in Israel, all operating...

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Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China

Zhang, Zhe; Putterman, Louis G.; Zhang, Xu - 2018

We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where tensions exist between the two ethnic groups. We conduct an incentivized laboratory-style decision-making experiment in which within and between group interactions occur among...

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Soft power of frugal innovation and its potential role in India's emergence as a global lead market for affordable excellence

Tiwari, Rajnish; Prabhu, Jaideep - 2018

The phenomenon of frugal innovation, as characterized by "affordable excellence", is experiencing increasing acceptance by business leaders, policy makers and scholars around the world. Frugal products, services and technologies strive to radically increase affordability while significantly...

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