It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...

We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to account for the endogeneity of peer group formation. We find statistically significant and robust spillover...

This paper develops a model of social interactions with endogenous association. People are assumed to invest in relationships to maximize their utility. Even in a linear-in-means model, when associations are endogenous, the effect of macro-group composition on behavior is non-linear and varies...

We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen den Big Five Persönlichkeitsfaktoren und vier sozialen Teilfähigkeiten Empathie, Kommunikationsfähigkeiten, Koordinationsfähigkeiten und Visionsfähigkeiten gemäß dem Modell der gelingenden Interaktion. Außerdem wird untersucht,...