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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?

Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020

We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized...

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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?

Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240022

Free riding in the lab and in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010

We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …

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Free-riding in the lab and in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2011

To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …

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Stochastic income and conditional generosity

Kellner, Christian; Reinstein, David; Riener, Gerhard - 2015

We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...