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Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - 2004

opportunistically. We find that most principals in our experiment do not restrict the agent?s choice set but trust that the agent will … perform well voluntarily. Principals who trust induce, on average, a higher performance and hence earn higher payoffs than …

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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008

preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs about the world, such as trust. This paper provides evidence on the three …

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Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - 2004

This paper shows that a principal's distrust in the voluntary performanceof an agent has a negative impact on the agent's motivation to perform well.

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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2016

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers’ prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2016

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064400

The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687758

The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2018

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A city-wide experiment on trust discrimination

Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - In: Journal of public economics 100 (2013), pp. 15-27

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A city-wide experiment on trust discrimination

Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - In: Journal of Public Economics 100 (2013) C, pp. 15-27

This paper reports evidence from a city-wide field experiment on trust. About 1000 inhabitants of Zurich take part in a … trust experiment, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. First … people trust strangers from their own district significantly more than strangers from other districts. This in-group effect …

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