Inequality is perhaps one of the most challenging issues of our time. Empirical literature,
using observational data, indicates that higher inequality is associated with lower social …

In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, households throughout the world have to
cope with negative shocks. Previous research has shown that negative shocks impair …

This paper investigates the role of moral norms as a social institution in anonymous
interactions in trust games. We argue that morality functions as a social norm and therefore …

This study examines the effects of a COVID-19 outbreak on levels of social capital on a
college campus, drawing on survey data collected from students at two colleges—one that …

We experimentally investigate the effect of a negative endowment shock that can cause
inequality in a trust game. Our goal is to assess whether different causes of inequality have …

Victims of violence appear hypersensitive to cues and their brain reacts to triggers as if the
past events were happening in the present. We assess to what extent recalling these …

We study why suffering a negative economic shock, ie, a significant loss, may trigger a
change in other-regarding behavior. We conjecture that people trade off concern for money …

The purpose of this paper is analyzing whether trust and reciprocity are affected by how rich
the partner is or how well the partner performed several tasks with real effort. A trust game …

This article studies the effect of uncertainty on reciprocity and trust using an experimental
trust game in which the trustor's transfer is lost with some probability. Only the trustee will …

We study behavior in a trust game where first-movers initially have a higher endowment than
second-movers but the occurrence of a positive random shock can eliminate this inequality …