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...

Developing reliable and practicable measures of economic preferences is a crucial task for empirical economic research with high value for both theory and applications. Here, we present results from a first comprehensive “behavioral validation analysis” of the Global Preference Survey Module...

Developing reliable and practicable measures of economic preferences is a crucial task for empirical economic research with high value for both theory and applications. Here, we present results from a first comprehensive "behavioral validation analysis" of the Global Preference Survey Module...

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...