We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where … tensions exist between the two ethnic groups. We conduct an incentivized laboratory-style decision-making experiment in which …

label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic …In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we …-oriented reforms, begun in 1978, helped China achieve unprecedented economic growth and at the same time Marxist ideology was gradually …

by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that … the Japanese are not a saving-loving people and that their saving behavior is not governed by culture and social norms …, we argue that these findings do not necessarily mean that culture and social norms do not matter. …