Seit 2006 wächst die regionale Wirtschaft wieder, Bevölkerung und Beschäftigung nehmen zu, die Arbeitslosigkeit sinkt. Doch das 'Beschäftigungswunder' hat Schattenseiten – Berlin steht an dritter Stelle des Armutsrankings und bei der Zahl der Hartz IV-Empfänger an der Spitze. Soziale...

The impact of culture on non-kin cooperation has been singled out as critical for economic activity. However, causal evidence of culture’s influence on cooperation remains scant. In this paper we provide such evidence, focusing on two key components of culture: preferences and beliefs....

Precedents can facilitate successful coordination within groups by reducing strategic uncertainty, but they may lead to coordination failure when two groups with diverging precedents have to interact. This paper describes an experiment to explore how such coordination failure can be mitigated...

Increasing inequality is commonly associated with social unrest and conflict between social classes. This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment to study the implications of rising inequality on the tendency to burn others' income. The experiment considers an environment where...