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Still different after all these years: Solidarity behavior in East and West Germany
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This article found that East Germans show consistently less solidarity than West Germans; there has been no convergence in the 20 years after the reunification and they hypothesize that this is due to complementarities involved in individual social behavior and the necessity to coordinate on social norms on the society level.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2011-12-01. It has received 175 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Solidarity & Convergence (economics).read more
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments
Urs Fischbacher,Simon Gächter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the decl ine of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for im perfect conditional cooperation, rather than changing beliefs of what others will contr ibute over time or people's heterogeneity in preferences makes voluntary cooperation fragile.
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Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply an extended sender-receiver model to find evidence that observing entrepreneurs reduces fear of failure in others in environments where approval of entrepreneurship is high, while this effect is significantly weaker in low-approval environments.
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Resource scarcity and antisocial behavior
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether exposure to persistent resource scarcity on the commons affects pastoralists' readiness to engage in antisocial behavior towards their fellow commons users and find that conflict behavior occurs twice as often in an area where resources are scarcer and competitive pressure is higher.
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Factors influencing German house owners' preferences on energy retrofits
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify key drivers and barriers for the adoption of building energy retrofits in Germany, which is promoted by public policy as an important measure to address the future challenges of climate change and energy security.
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Conspicuous consumption and political regimes: Evidence from East and West Germany
Tim Friehe,Mario Mechtel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of political regimes on the relative importance of conspicuous consumption was investigated and it was found that conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany than in the former GDR.
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
TL;DR: Putnam et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, revealing patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
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“Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital”
TL;DR: Putnam as discussed by the authors showed that crucial factors such as social trust are eroding rapidly in the United States and offered some possible explanations for this erosion and concluded that the work needed to consider these possibilities more fully.
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Bowling alone, america's declining of social capital
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Economics and Identity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes and incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior, and construct a simple game-theoretic model showing how identity can affect individual interactions.