Still different after all these years: Solidarity behavior in East and West Germany
Still different after all these years: Solidarity behavior in East and West Germany
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.06.002
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发表时间：
2011-12-01
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Weimann, Joachim
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作者：
Brosig-Koch, Jeannette;Helbach, Christoph;Weimann, Joachim
使用实验室实验的数据，我们发现东德人始终表现出比西德人更少的团结；在统一后的20年里，没有出现趋同。虽然最近估计政治价值观在回归后20到40年内趋于一致(Alesina和Fuchs-Schundeln，2007)，但我们从我们的发现得出结论，社会行为的变化比政治价值观的变化慢。我们假设这是由于个人社会行为的互补性，以及在社会层面上协调社会规范的必要性。(C)2011爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
Using data from laboratory experiments, we find that East Germans show consistently less solidarity than West Germans; there has been no convergence in the 20 years after the reunification. While it has recently been estimated that political values converge 20 to 40 years after the reunification (Alesina and Fuchs-Schundeln, 2007), we conclude from our findings that social behavior changes more slowly than political values. We hypothesize that this is due to complementarities involved in individual social behavior and the necessity to coordinate on social norms on the society level. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.