Due to betrayal aversion, people take risks less willingly when the agent of uncertainty is another person rather than nature. Individuals in six countries (Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States) confronted a binary-choice trust game or a risky decision offering the...

Women, and particularly women in all-female groups, appear to be especially adept at providing public goods in developing countries. We use a one-shot Public Goods game to explore the effect of sex and a group's sex composition on the voluntary provision of public goods in a Nairobi slum. Sex...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Promise of Behavioral Design -- Part One. The Problem -- 1. Unconscious Bias Is Everywhere -- 2. De-Biasing Minds Is Hard -- 3. Doing It Yourself Is Risky -- 4. Getting Help Only Takes You So Far -- Part Two. How to Design Talent Management -- 5. Applying Data to...

Objective Guide policy-makers in prioritizing safe motherhood interventions.Methods Three models (LOW, MED, HIGH) were constructed based on 34 sub-Saharan African countries to assess the relative cost-effectiveness of available safe motherhood interventions. Cost and effectiveness data were...

This paper employs economic experiments to explore the social costs of claiming value in distributive negotiations. I use a reverse dictator game, a "Taking" game, to measure value claiming behavior and an Investment game to measure the social costs of claiming value in terms of trust offered by...

What motivates people to trust and be trustworthy? Is trust solely “calculative,†based on the expectation of trustworthiness, and trustworthiness only reciprocity? Employing a within-subject design, we run investment and dictator game experiments in Russia, South Africa and the United...

Review of: Cognitive Economics: Lascomes Series 1. Ed. by Riccardo Viale. 1997. La Rosa: Torino