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  1. The long shadow of income on trustworthiness
    Author: Ermisch, John; Gambetta, Diego
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  ISER, [Colchester]

    We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. Our basic finding is that given past... more

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    We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. Our basic finding is that given past income, higher current income increases trustworthiness and, given current income, higher past income reduces trustworthiness. Past income determines the level of financial aspirations and whether or not these are fulfilled by the level of current income affects trustworthiness. We also suspect that past income may also capture heterogeneity in relevant subjects‘ dispositions, with more opportunistic subjects being less trustworthy and having higher average incomes. -- trustworthiness ; relative income

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/65973
    Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; 2011-08
    Subjects: Vertrauen; Einkommen; Soziale Mobilität; Großbritannien
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 32 S., 302,87 KB), graph. Darst.
  2. The long shadow of income on trustworthiness
    Author: Ermisch, John; Gambetta, Diego
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. These previous interviews allow us to have... more

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    We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. These previous interviews allow us to have very good income measures, and in particular to construct a measure of relative income that uses past income as a reference point. Our basic finding is that given past income, higher current income increases trustworthiness and, given current income, higher past income reduces trustworthiness. Past income determines the level of financial aspirations and whether or not these are fulfilled by the level of current income affects trustworthiness. But past income has a disproportionately large effect on trustworthiness compared to that predicted by the relative income theory, and this leads us to suspect that past income may also capture heterogeneity in relevant subjects' dispositions, with more opportunistic subjects being less trustworthy and having higher average incomes. We suggest and estimate a two-tier model in which relative income has the same positive effect within each past income class, but people in higher past income classes have a lower fundamental levels of trustworthiness. -- trustworthiness ; relative income

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5585
    Subjects: Vertrauen; Einkommen; Soziale Mobilität; Großbritannien
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 34 S., 222,73 KB), graph. Darst.
  3. At the root of the North-South cooperation gap in Italy
    preferences or beliefs?
    Author: Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Casari, Marco; Gambetta, Diego
    Published: January 11, 2017
    Publisher:  Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Department of Economics, Bologna, Italy

    The marked difference in the development of the North and the South of Italy represents a prototypical case of seemingly intractable within-country disparities. Recent research found that a plausible determinant of this socio-economic gap would be a... more

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    The marked difference in the development of the North and the South of Italy represents a prototypical case of seemingly intractable within-country disparities. Recent research found that a plausible determinant of this socio-economic gap would be a difference in the ability to cooperate. Through a laboratory experiment we investigate whence this difference derives, whether from different preferences or from different beliefs. Our findings indicate that Northerners and Southerners share the same individual pro-social preferences, and that the cooperation gap lies rather in the pessimistic beliefs that Southerners have about their cooperativeness. Southerners, furthermore, manifest a stronger aversion to social risk, as compared to the risk of nature. A policy implication is that an intervention or an event that reduced pessimistic beliefs would directly boost cooperation levels.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/159930
    Series: Working paper DSE / Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Department of Economics ; no 1092
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  4. Cooperation hidden frontiers
    the behavioral foundations of the Italian North-South divide
    Author: Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Casari, Marco; Gambetta, Diego; Pancotto, Francesca
    Published: November 8, 2013
    Publisher:  Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Department of Economics, Bologna, Italy

    Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that successful regions are... more

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    Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that successful regions are characterized by higher levels of trust, and, more generally, of cooperation. Here we study a classic case of within-country disparities, the Italian North-South divide, to find out whether people exhibit geographically distinct abilities to cooperate independently of many other factors and whence these differences emerge. Through an experiment in four Italian cities, we study the behavior of a sample of the general population toward trust and contributions to the common good. We find that trust and contributions vary in unison, and diminish moving from North to South. This regional gap cannot be attributed to payoffs from cooperation or to institutions, formal or informal, that may vary across Italy, as the experimental methodology silences their impact. The gap is also independent of risk and other-regarding preferences which we measure experimentally, suggesting that the lower ability to cooperate we find in the South is not due to individual \moral" flaws. The gap could originate from emergent collective properties, such as different social norms and the expectations they engender. The absence of convergence in behavior during the last 150 years, since Italy was unified, further suggests that these norms can persist overtime. Using a millennium-long dataset, we explore whether the quality of past political institutions and the frequency of wars could explain the emergence of these differences in norms.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/159721
    Series: Working paper DSE / Department of Economics, Università di Bologna ; no 882
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 39 Seiten), Illustrationen
  5. Making sense of suicide missions
    Contributor: Gambetta, Diego (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, New York

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    Source: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
    Contributor: Gambetta, Diego (Publisher)
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0-19-927699-4
    Subjects: Selbstmordattentat; Terrorismus; Geschichte 1943 - 2003; Terrorismus; Selbstmordattentat; Geschichte 1943-2003
    Scope: X, 378 S. : Ill.
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    Literaturverz. S. 337 - 356
  6. Can we make sense of suicide missions?
    Author: Gambetta, Diego

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    Source: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
    Media type: Part of a book
    Parent title: In: Making sense of suicide missions.(2005); 2005; S. 259 - 300