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ECONOMIC JOURNAL
Volume 129, Issue 619, Pages 1139-1152Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12608
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- ERC Starting Grant [241196]
- European Research Council (ERC) [241196] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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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 investigate experimentally three possible sources of this difference, and find that Northerners and Southerners share the same pro-social preferences, but differ both in their belief about cooperativeness and in the aversion to social risk, respectively, more pessimistic and stronger among Southerners; intervention or events that reduced pessimistic beliefs should directly boost cooperation.
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