Does Upward Mobility Harm Trust?

Measuring Upward Mobility

This paper develops a mobility measure that combines desirable features of the relative and absolute approaches to measuring mobility. From the relative approach we borrow the idea that income growth accruing to the relatively poor is more to be valued than income growth to the relatively rich. From the absolute approach we take the idea that upward changes are to be valued, in and of themselve...

Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth In Iran?

does inflation harm economic growth in iran?

Does the trust game measure trust?

We test whether altruism is a significant confound of observed choices in the standard trust game. We allow for rich and poor trustees and examine whether, consistent with dominant altruism, trustors give more to the poor, or whether, consistent with dominant trust motives, trustors give no more to the poor than to the rich. This test is based on within-treatment and within-subject comparisons....

The Socio-cognitive Dynamics of Trust: Does Trust Create Trust?

We will examine in this paper three crucial aspects of trust dynamics: a) How A's trusting B and relying on it in situation can actually (objectively) in unce B's trustworthiness within . Either trust is a self-ful lling prophecy that modi es the probability of the predicted event; or it is a self-defeating strategy by negatively in uencing the events. And also how A can be aware of and take in...