Crime-Related Exposure to Violence and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Bogotá

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Crime-related Exposure to Violence and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Bogotá Exposición a violencia relacionada con el crimen y preferencias sociales: evidencia experimental de Bogotá

Negative shocks predict change in cognitive function and preferences: assessing the negative affect and stress hypothesis

“…It is argued that this effect may be due to a reassessment of individual beliefs (in particular, the importance of social capital in uncertain environments, where the rentability of other forms of capital is severely affected) or aspirations (post shock growth), or to evolutionary mechanisms that reward in-group cooperation in intra-groups conflicts-however, the latter is mainly in relation to conflict related shocks and may be less relevant when the exposure is at the individual level (Bauer et al 26 ). Nevertheless, Bogliacino, Gómez, and Grimalda 39 have assessed these mechanisms and found no support for them. They have thus speculated that negative emotions may be the driving force in these situations, either because they impair cognitive performance, indirectly inducing more pro-sociality (Social Heuristics Hypothesis 40 ), or they may directly trigger pro-sociality because the warm glow of giving undoes the unpleasant negative emotions themselves 41 .…”

Trust and trustworthiness after a land restitution program: lab-in-the-field evidence from Colombia

“…Then we split the participants in four groups according to two dimensions: whether they were displaced or restituted, and whether they were in the control condition or in a treatment (signal or vote) condition, and we look at the differences across the four groups. As a final analysis, we also compare the results of trust and trustworthiness with the result of the same trust game implemented in rural Colombia (Bogliacino, Jiménez and Grimalda 2018) and in Bogotá (Bogliacino, Gómez and Grimalda, 2018.…”

“…For that reason, we rely on the second round data for the purposes of the present study. The second sample is from Bogotá (224 observations) related to a trust game with a third party punishment treatment (Bogliacino, Gómez, and Grimalda, 2018). We report the level of trust and trustworthiness (calculated using Equation 1) in Figures 7 and 8, respectively.…”

“…Displaced corresponds to the observations for which Land is equal to zero. Rural is the sample in Bogliacino, Jiménez, Grimalda (2018), while Urban is a sample from Bogotá (Bogliacino, Gómez, Grimalda, 2018). Land is a dummy equal to one when the respondent answers affirmatively to one of the following three items: "I have been benefited by the restitution under the Ley de Víctimas," "I have been benefited by other process of land titles formalizations," "I have been benefited by a collective process of land titling."…”

“…SES measures the quality of the dwelling, increasing from one to six. Rural is equal to one if the observation belongs to the sample of Bogliacino et al (2015), while Urban is equal to one if the observation belong to the Bogotá sample (Bogliacino, Gómez & Grimalda, 2018).…”