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SSRN Electronic Journal.
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
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 c
We study whether employment history provides information about a worker’s “work attitude”, that is, the tendency to act cooperatively and reliably in the workplace. We conjecture that, holding all else equal, frequent job changes can indicate p
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::e25f976eaf140a67a2391fefde697062
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/115782/
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/115782/
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
Wealthy individuals have a disproportionate influence on politics and firms. We study attitudes toward redistribution of a large sample of the top 5% in the U.S. in terms of income and financial assets, and find that they prefer less redistribution t
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Science (New York, N.Y.). 365(6448)
Honesty and selfishness across culturesRationalist approaches to economics assume that people value their own interests over the interests of strangers. Cohnet al.wanted to examine the trade-off between material self-interest and more altruistic beha
Publikováno v:
Management Science. 61:1777-1794
The presence of workers who reciprocate higher wages with greater effort can have important consequences for firms and labor markets. Knowledge about the extent and determinants of reciprocal effort choices is, however, incomplete. We investigate the
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The Review of Economic Studies. 82:1289-1308
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Honesty plays a key role in social and economic interactions and is crucial for societal functioning. However, breaches of honesty are pervasive and cause significant societal and economic problems that can affect entire nations. Despite its importan