We investigate voluntary contribution to public goods in culturally heterogeneous groups with a laboratory experiment conducted among 432 Hindu and Muslim subjects in India. With our specification of ‘Leading by example’ we test for an interaction effect between leadership and religious...

We investigate voluntary contribution to public goods in culturally heterogeneous groups with a laboratory experiment conducted among 432 Hindu and Muslim subjects in India. With our specification of 'Leading by example' we test for an interaction effect between leadership and religious...

Adding to the debate about the “broken windows” thesis we discuss an explanation of minor norm violation based on the assumption that individuals infer expected sanctioning probabilities from contextual cues. We modify the classical framework of rational crime by signals of disorder, local...

Das zunehmende Interesse an ökonomischen Fragestellungen in der Soziologie hat zu einer Fülle empirischer Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschaftssoziologie geführt. Das Buch trägt fundamentale Erkenntnisse quantitativer Forschung zusammen und demonstriert anhand eigener empirischer Beiträge...