Purpose – The aim of this paper is to study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and … reciprocity and to compare natives and second generation migrants. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on the IZA … and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly higher willingness to take risks and they are …

Previous literature has demonstrated the important role that trust plays in developing and maintaining well …-functioning societies. However, if we are to learn how to increase levels of trust in society, we must first understand why people choose to … trust others. One potential answer to this is that people view trust as normative: there is a social norm for trusting that …

In this paper we provide evidence that trust and reciprocity, the two key elements of social capital, are affected by … trusting and reciprocal behaviour and we show significant cross-country differences between the levels of trust and reciprocity …. We also show that the answers for ¡®trust in strangers¡¯ type attitudinal questions have a significant effect either on …

We examine the influence of social distance on levels of trust and reciprocity in China. Social distance, reflected in … and social distance. However, reciprocity was not responsive to social distance. Study 2 found that affect-based trust … shouren classmates. This is true despite the fact that no more cognition-based trust is placed nor reciprocity received or …