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Common components of risk and uncertainty attitudes across contexts and domains : evidence from 30 countries
Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Bouchouicha, … - 2013
Attitudes towards uncertainty have been indicated to be highly context-dependent, and to be sensitive to the measurement technique employed. We present data collected in controlled experiments with 2939 subjects in 30 countries measuring uncertainty attitudes through incentivized measures as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195387
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How Much Should We Trust the World Values Survey Trust Question?
Johnson, Noel D.; Mislin, Alexandra - 2012
We use a unique data set of trust game replications in order to validate the commonly used “trust” question from the … World Values Survey. We find that trust as measured by the World Values Survey is positively correlated with experimentally … measured trust and unrelated to experimentally measured trustworthiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177043
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910744
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920767
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912825
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781675
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800629
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Burying the bumblebee once and for all : does big government hurt growth less in high-trust countries?
Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2016
High levels of social trust has been linked to both public sector size and long term economic growth, thereby helping … examines if social trust as a background factor also insulates countries against negative effects of public sector size on … insulating effects. Instead we find robust evidence that high trust aggravates the crowding out effects of public sector size on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444480
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Somatic distance, cultural affinities, trust and trade
Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2018
true quite independently of survey evidence about bilateral trust. These findings are obtained in a sample of the 15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847586
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What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian; … - 2020 - Revised version
of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390078