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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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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 …

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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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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,...

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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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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 - 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

Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005762323

The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask … influenced by parents in terms of risk attitudes. Interestingly, for trust there is no impact of family size or birth order … who are similar to parents in terms of risk are similar in terms of trust. We find that the transmission from parents to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762390