Group decision-making processes are often adopted to strengthen social bonds. In this paper, I study experimentally the effects of group decision-making on social preferences towards group members, while distinguishing between participation and outcome effects. I find that participation in a...

Stress in the modern workplace is widespread, yet little is known about its cost on workers. This paper investigates the compensating wage differential for cashiers' stress in handling cash payments. First, a multi-country panel data study shows that cashier wages increase with retail cash...

This paper reports a cross-sectional study of the use of cash in retail transactions among 36 countries between 2010-17. The retail use of cash in increased with concern for privacy and decreased with trust in banks. An increase in concern for privacy by one standard deviation (equivalent to an...