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Moral Universalism: Measurement and Economic Relevance

@article{Enke2021MoralUM,
  title={Moral Universalism: Measurement and Economic Relevance},
  author={Benjamin Enke and Ricardo Rodr{\'i}guez-Padilla and Florian Zimmermann},
  journal={Manag. Sci.},
  year={2021},
  volume={68},
  pages={3590-3603},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:221701522}
}
Many applied economic settings involve trade-offs between in-group members and strangers. To better understand decision making in these contexts, this paper measures and investigates the economic relevance of heterogeneity in moral universalism: the extent to which people exhibit the same level of altruism and trust toward strangers as toward in-group members. We first introduce a new experimentally validated, survey-based measure of moral universalism that is simple and easily scalable. We… 
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