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Increasing the share of women in politics is regularly promoted as a means of reducing corruption. In this paper, we … data on attitudes towards corruption with data from incentivized experiments. While we find little evidence of a gender gap … corruption can be seen among experienced politicians, particularly women. However, this seeming hardening in attitudes among …
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We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized...
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We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269488
We validate survey measures of social capital with a new behavioral data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420687
are poorly enforced. We investigate whether sellers differ in innate honesty (incur private cost to provide good quality …
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We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory … that honesty is a valued trait, regression discontinuity analysis reveals that the Israeli military has optimally set the … evaluate employee honesty. …
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We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers' performance is about 11% higher for...
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dimensions: volunteerism and honesty. We use representative samples from five major economies of the Euro area: France, Germany … always in line with these assessments. Assessments of honesty show strong evidence of social projection: Participants expect …
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We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test the external validity of a common laboratory measure of cheating. Subjects performed several coin tosses and earned money depending on the outcomes they reported. Because the coin tosses were not monitored, subjects faced a...
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