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Proximity can induce diverse friendships : a large randomized classroom experiment
Rohrer, Julia M.; Keller, Tamás; Elwert, Felix - 2020
Can outside interventions foster socio-culturally diverse friendships? We executed a large field experiment that … similarity with respect to educational achievement, gender, and ethnicity. However, the probability of a manifest friendship … highlight that transgressing boundaries defined by ethnicity and gender remains an uphill battle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439791
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Self-serving biases in beliefs about collective outcomes
Kogan, Shimon; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self-serving biases in information processing—documented for beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494819
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Contact vs. information : what shapes attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from an experiment in schools
Florio, Erminia - 2020
towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306401
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Friendship networks and political opinions : a natural experiment among future French politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2019
We study how friendship shapes students' political opinions in a natural experiment. We use the indicator whether two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038651
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No man is an island : trust, trustworthiness, and social capital among Syrian refugees in Germany
El Bialy, Nora; Fraile Aranda, Elisa; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - 2021
interacting with a German participant. In turn, the negative discrimination refugees display towards Germans decreases regarding … they interact with a Syrian compared to when interacting with a German participant. In turn, the negative discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424259
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Self-serving biases in beliefs about collective outcomes
Shimon Kogan, Shimon; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self-serving biases in information processing-documented for beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012488738
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Does trust extend beyond the village? Experimental trust and social distance in Cameroon
Etang Ndip, Alvin; Fielding, David; Knowles, Stephen - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2009
In this paper we use experimental data collected in rural Cameroon to quantify the effect of social distance on trust and altruism. Our measure of social distance is one that is relevant to everyday economic interactions: subjects in a Trust Game play with fellow villagers or with someone from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611247
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Friendship networks and political opinions: a natural experiment among future French politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2020
We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390767
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Are Preferences Stable Across Domains? An Experimental Investigation of Social Preferences in the Field
de Oliveira, Angela C. M.; Croson, Rachel T. A.; Eckel, … - 2014
Our research investigates whether social preferences are stable across contexts in the field. We build a unique data set by recruiting participants from a low-income urban neighborhood to participate in a series of laboratory experiments. Their decisions are used to demonstrate the stability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180236
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Methodological Steps of an Experimental Design for Measuring Social Capital and Collective Action in Six Latin American Cities (Pasos Metodológicos De Un Diseño Experimental Para M...
Candelo Londono, Natalia; Polania-Reyes, Sandra - 2014
In the year 2007 It was held the research project called “Measuring Trust, Trustworthiness and Pro-Sociality in Six Latin American Cities”: Bogotá, D.C, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lima, Montevideo and San José de Costa Rica. The purpose of this study was to analyze the interaction between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203055