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Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016

This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At the same time, there is significant social distance...

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Immigrant Assimilation, Trust and Social Capital

Cox, James C. - 2010

Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first-generation immigrants and native-born Americans as a measure of...

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Beliefs and Actions in the Trust Game : Creating Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Causal Effect

Costa-Gomes, Miguel A. - 2010

In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's expectation about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. Recent experimental studies as well as surveys have asked participants to state their beliefs explicitly, but little is known about the causal relation...

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The Heritability of Trust and Trustworthiness Depends on the Measure of Trust

Kettlewell, Nathan; Tymula, Agnieszka - 2021

Using a large sample of 1,120 twins, we estimated the heritability of trust using four distinct measures of trust – domain-specific political trust, general self-reported trust, and incentivized behavioral trust and trustworthiness. Our results highlight the importance of measuring trust in a...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...

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Social Attitudes and Economic Development : An Epidemiological Approach

Algan, Yann - 2007

In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...

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Do Women Prefer a Co-Operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2011

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production …

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The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Suchon, Rémi - 2019

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural group identity is generated by school affiliation. Status (expert or agent) is awarded based on relative performance in a math quiz that is ex ante less favorable to the...

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Team Governance : Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We … show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members … identifies that team governance is driven by the importance of tasks that cannot be monitored. The more important these tasks …

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Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks

O'Higgins, Niall - 2018

Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which...

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