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Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a reference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

Policies and explicit incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is pervasive, and...

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Dictator games : a meta study

Engel, Christoph - 2010

Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarizes the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, the meta study explores a rich set of control variables for...

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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012

Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...

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Are groups more rational than individuals? : a review of interactive decision making in groups

Kugler, Tamar; Kausel, Edgar E.; Kocher, Martin - 2012

, dictator, ultimatum, trust, centipede and principal-agent games, among others. Our review suggests that results are quite …

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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012

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The design of trade agreements

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Sacrifice, discounting and climate policy : five questions

Karp, Larry S. - 2009

I offer a selective review of discounting and climate policy. Analytic and numerical models show that different assumptions greatly change the degree to which decisions about climate policy depend on the discount rate. I discuss a claim that standard models exaggerate the current generation's...

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