Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Behavioural Outcomes
利用大型代表性调查中的个体互惠倾向度量，研究互惠性如何影响现实中的劳动力市场行为和结果，发现正互惠与更高工资和更努力相关，负互惠则降低努力并增加失业风险。
This article complements the experimental literature that has shown the importance of reciprocity for behaviour in stylised labour markets or other decision settings. We use individual measures of reciprocal inclinations in a large, representative survey and relate reciprocity to real world labour market behaviour and life outcomes. We find that reciprocity matters and that the way in which it matters is very much in line with the experimental evidence. In particular, positive reciprocity is associated with receiving higher wages and working harder. Negatively reciprocal inclinations tend to reduce effort. Negative reciprocity increases the likelihood of being unemployed. Copyright © The Author(s). Journal compilation © Royal Economic Society 2009.