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Country-level estimates of negative reciprocity

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Source
Global Preferences Survey (2018) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
November 6, 2018
Date range
2012–2012

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Global Preferences Survey

The Global Preferences Survey (GPS) measures preferences for nationally representative samples taken from each of the 76 countries covered. This includes 15 countries from the Americas, 25 from Europe, 22 from Asia and the Pacific, and 14 African countries - 11 of which are Sub-Saharan. In total, this covers 90% of both the world population and total income.

The median sample size was 1,000 participants per country. The sample includes preference measures for over 80,000 participants altogether.

Country level averages for each economic preference were calculated using individual-level data weighted by the sampling weights provided by the Gallup World Poll. Each preference is normalized to have mean 0 and standard deviation 1 in the individual-level data.

For more information on the construction of the GPS dataset, see Section II.A of the paper by Falk et al. (2018).

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This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T., Enke, B., Huffman, D., and Sunde, U. (2018). Global evidence on economic preferences. Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming). Published by briq - Institute on Behavior and Inequality.
Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T. J., Huffman, D., and Sunde, U. (2016). The preference survey module: A validated instrument for measuring risk, time, and social preferences. IZA Discussion Paper No. 9674.

The Global Preferences Survey (GPS) measures preferences for nationally representative samples taken from each of the 76 countries covered. This includes 15 countries from the Americas, 25 from Europe, 22 from Asia and the Pacific, and 14 African countries - 11 of which are Sub-Saharan. In total, this covers 90% of both the world population and total income.

The median sample size was 1,000 participants per country. The sample includes preference measures for over 80,000 participants altogether.

Country level averages for each economic preference were calculated using individual-level data weighted by the sampling weights provided by the Gallup World Poll. Each preference is normalized to have mean 0 and standard deviation 1 in the individual-level data.

For more information on the construction of the GPS dataset, see Section II.A of the paper by Falk et al. (2018).

Retrieved on
November 6, 2018
Retrieved from
https://www.briq-institute.org/global-preferences/downloads
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T., Enke, B., Huffman, D., and Sunde, U. (2018). Global evidence on economic preferences. Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming). Published by briq - Institute on Behavior and Inequality.
Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T. J., Huffman, D., and Sunde, U. (2016). The preference survey module: A validated instrument for measuring risk, time, and social preferences. IZA Discussion Paper No. 9674.

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Global Preferences Survey (2018) – processed by Our World in Data

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Global Preferences Survey (2018) – processed by Our World in Data. “Country-level estimates of negative reciprocity” [dataset]. Global Preferences Survey, “Global Preferences Survey” [original data]. Retrieved May 12, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260512-085513/grapher/cross-country-variation-in-negative-reciprocity.html (archived on May 12, 2026).

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