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Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment
Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential … trust game, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. Our main … accordingly. Furthermore, we provide evidence of in-group favoritism, i.e., people trust strangers from their own district …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703477
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Discrimination and In-group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment
Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007
-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential … trust game, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. Our main … accordingly. Furthermore, we provide evidence of in-group favoritism, i.e., people trust strangers from their own district …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585631
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Reziprozität und Sozialkapital
Falk, Armin - In: Universitas : Orientieren! Wissen! Handeln! 57 (2002) 9, pp. 936-946
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001692530
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Driving Forces of Informal Sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Informal sanctions are a major determinant of a society's social capital because they are key to the enforcement of implicit agreements and social norms. Yet, little is known about the driving forces behind informal sanctions. We systematically examine the determinants of informal sanctions by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627991
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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/10011687871
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The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2018
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/10011872125
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Distrust : The Hidden Cost of Control
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261958
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264365
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Homo reciprocans: survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267940
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479379