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We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially … identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for statistical discrimination. Further …, affiliation to the same religion may enhance group identity, or affiliation irrespective of creed may lend social identity, and in …
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investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … strategic misrepresentation of ethnicity increases Georgian trustors' expected back transfers and eliminates their …
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into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females … migrants, who have constituted a large demographic group in Germany since the 1970s. In the field experiment presented here … photograph included in the application material. Germany was the ideal location for the experiment as job seekers typically …
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a quality decision for platforms that increases user engagement and hence advertising revenue. The second experiment …
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Aversion to "stigma" - disutility associated with a program or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived - may affect labor market choices and utilization of social programs, but empirical evidence of its importance is scarce. Using two randomized field experiments, we show that stigma...
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Aversion to "stigma" - disutility associated with a program or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived - may affect labor market choices and utilization of social programs, but empirical evidence of its importance is scarce. Using two randomized field experiments, we show that stigma...
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a quality decision for platforms that increases user engagement and hence advertising revenue. The second experiment …
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Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a … framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and group affiliation). Discrimination is prevalent in our subjects …
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Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the...
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sample of 100 students from the majority population. We also estimate the role of statistical discrimination, taste …-based discrimination, and the contact hypothesis. Our results show small but significant mistreatment of the Roma. The choice to (not) have … a Roma in a team seems to be driven by tastes, while the role of statistical discrimination and the contact hypothesis …
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