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View article: Pérdida de eficacia del ácido láctico frente a variantes resistentes a ciprofloxacina de Salmonella Typhimurium
Pérdida de eficacia del ácido láctico frente a variantes resistentes a ciprofloxacina de Salmonella Typhimurium Open
El ácido láctico (AL) es un ácido orgánico natural con propiedades antimicrobianas ampliamente utilizado en la industria alimentaria, como sucede en la desinfección superficial de canales de bovino. La posible interrelación entre la resist…
View article: Trust and Strength of Family Ties: New Experimental Evidence
Trust and Strength of Family Ties: New Experimental Evidence Open
We provide a conceptual replication of an experimental study that uncovered a robust correlation between the strength of individuals’ family ties and their distrust of strangers, striving to establish whether the link is causal. Using a di…
View article: COVID-19 infection induces higher trust in strangers
COVID-19 infection induces higher trust in strangers Open
How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect interpersonal trust? Most evidence shows that natural disasters reinforce trust and cooperation, but the COVID-19 virus differs from other calamities, since it spreads through contact with people, pote…
View article: COVID 19 infection induces higher trust in strangers
COVID 19 infection induces higher trust in strangers Open
Complete datasets and code to reproduce all the results included in the main text and in the online appendix.
View article: Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam
Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam Open
Religions seem to defy the law-of-demand, which suggests that all else equal, an increase in the cost of an activity will induce individuals to decrease the resources they spend on that activity. Rather than weakening religious organizatio…
View article: L’enfer c’est les autres? The effects of COVID-19 virus on interpersonal trust
L’enfer c’est les autres? The effects of COVID-19 virus on interpersonal trust Open
Does the COVID-19 pandemic affect interpersonal trust? Most evidence shows that natural disasters reinforce trust and cooperation, but the COVID-19 virus differs from other calamities since it spreads through contact with people, potential…
View article: Longer religious fasting increases support for Islamist parties: Evidence from Ramadan
Longer religious fasting increases support for Islamist parties: Evidence from Ramadan Open
Much scientific research shows that the sacrifices imposed by religious practices are positively associated with the success of religious organizations. We present the first evidence that this association is causal. We employ a natural exp…
Does information about toughness decrease fighting? Experimental evidence Open
View article: The politics behind the veil
The politics behind the veil Open
Using a natural experiment, we find that in provinces where Turkey’s Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) just won the election in 2004, women, including those who are weakly- or non-religious, now veil far more than in provinces in…
View article: Sharing Compromising Information as a Cooperative Strategy
Sharing Compromising Information as a Cooperative Strategy Open
Well-enforced norms create an opportunity for norm breakers to cooperate in ventures requiring trust. This is realized when norm breakers, by sharing evidence of their breaches, make themselves vulnerable to denunciation and therefore trus…
View article: At the Root of the North–South Cooperation Gap in Italy: Preferences or Beliefs?
At the Root of the North–South Cooperation Gap in Italy: Preferences or Beliefs? Open
The sharp gap in development between the North and the South of Italy represents a paradigmatic case of persistent within‐country disparities. The evidence suggests that this gap could depend on a difference in the ability to cooperate. We…
View article: At the root of the North-South cooperation gap in Italy: Preferences or beliefs?
At the root of the North-South cooperation gap in Italy: Preferences or beliefs? Open
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 …
View article: At the Root of the North-South Cooperation Gap in Italy: Preferences or Beliefs?
At the Root of the North-South Cooperation Gap in Italy: Preferences or Beliefs? Open
View article: Income and Trustworthiness
Income and Trustworthiness Open
We employ a behavioral measure of trustworthiness obtained from a trust game carried out with a sample of the general British population, the individuals of which were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. Our basic finding is that…
View article: Amoral Familism, Social Capital, or Trust? The Behavioural Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide
Amoral Familism, Social Capital, or Trust? The Behavioural Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide Open
We present the first laboratory-in-the field experiment on the Italian North-South divide. Using a representative sample of the population, we measure whether regional disparities in ability to cooperate emerge even if differences in geogr…