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I establish a positive relationship between family ties and civic virtues, as captured by disapproval of tax and benefit cheating, corruption, and a range of other dimensions of exploiting others for personal gain. I find that family ties are a complement to social capital, using within country...
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This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European countries with ancestry from across the world are studied. Individuals are examined within country of residence using variation in trust across countries of ancestry. The...
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This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with ancestries from 115 countries are studied within 30 European countries. Comparing individuals born and residing in the same country, those whose father was born in a more...
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We elicit individual-level peer-punishment types in a cooperation (social dilemma) and a coordination (weakest link …
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Cooperation in social dilemmas plays a pivotal role in the formation of systems at all levels of complexity, from … stability of cooperation pose an evolutionary conundrum, since cooperation, though beneficial to others, is costly to the … of cooperation without bearing the costs of cooperating themselves. Many proximate mechanisms have been proposed to …
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