We provide new evidence on the extent that survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity − predict behavior in corresponding experimental games outside the original...

We provide new evidence on the extent that survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity − predict behavior in corresponding experimental games outside the original...

We provide evidence on the extent to which survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences - trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity - predict behavior in corresponding experimental games outside the original...

Perseverance as a non-cognitive skill is a determining factor for achieving goals of any kind. Poverty, however, can impair this crucial skill. I conduct an experiment in Iran using an intervention to draw the adolescents’ attention to the scarcities and deprivations at hand and then measures...

Perseverance as a non-cognitive skill is determinative for achievement. Poverty, however, can impair this crucial skill. The literature surrounding the psychology of poverty has been growing and yet how poverty affects the labor supply, in particular, the provision of effort is relatively...

In this paper we take up a model of Okada (1996) to describe the possibility of collective cooperation in a n-person Prisoner's Dilemma game by means of institutional arrangements. In addition, we introduce the possibility to corrupt the institutional authority by paying him some positive...