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-in-the-field experiment comprised five behavioural games: dictator, bargaining, trust, public goods, and risk-preference elicitation. It was …
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' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary organizations, trust, and the significance of family ties in economic … Communist Party membership, trust and access to informal insurance. …
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This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in the state of Maharashtra. The analysis applies a random-effect model with lagged covariates to estimate the exogenous effect of riots on...
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Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness of conscious direction. In this paper, I develop a model to study giving behaviours under conditions of implicit bias. I test this model by implementing a novel laboratory experiment - a Dictator Game with sorting to study both these...
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We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect allocations in a modified dictator game where both parties perform a cognitive task and the resulting pie to be split is the sum of both parties' earnings. Our key results are...
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We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
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This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this impact persists over time, and what mechanisms may shape the relationship between inequality and civic engagement. The results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with...
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Whereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays attention to what happens over time once a person becomes a client. The paper aims at analysing the conditions of loan renewals as most microfinance institutions foster client...
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How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … trust, reconciliation, and community engagement than stayees, whereas the differences between international returnees and … stayees are mostly statistically insignificant. Greater exposure to violence has a more positive effect on trust for returnees …
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living conditions and explore its relationship with forms of trust and the potential for social unrest. The index reveals … further show that weak readiness is not offset by high levels of social trust, which can be vital for effective public health …
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