Amoral Familism, Social Capital, or Trust? The Behavioural Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Maria Bigoni ; Stefania Bortolotti ; Marco Casari ; Diego Gambetta and Francesca Pancotto
• 刊名：The Economic Journal
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：126
• 期：594
• 页码：1318-1341
• 全文大小：245K
• ISSN：1468-0297

文摘

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 geography, institutions and criminal intrusion are silenced. We report that a behavioural gap in cooperation exists: Northern and Southern citizens react differently to the same incentives. Moreover, this gap cannot be accounted for by tolerance for risk, proxies of social capital and ‘amoral familism’. At least a share of North–South disparities is likely to derive from persistent differences in social norms.