We investigate what is behind the profit/not–for-profit wage differential by comparing judgments on job characteristics of workers who voluntarily or involuntarily moved from the former to the latter. We define voluntary movers as those who applied for a job in a not-for-profit organization...

Natural disasters have been shown to produce effects on social capital, risk and time preferences of victims. We run experiments on altruistic, time and risk preferences on a sample of Sri Lankan microfinance borrowers affected/unaffected by the tsunami shock in 2004 at a 7-year distance from...