Round-up: Are Americans better-off than Europeans?

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week

Users Favor LLM-Generated Content -- Until They Know It's AI. Petr Parshakov and colleagues examine how humans evaluate answers to questions generated by humans versus AI. Using a randomised design, they find that humans prefer AI-generated answers. Yet when they are informed of the answers’ provenance, this preference diminishes. The results point to a bias against AI-generated content.

The Culture of Corruption across Generations: An Empirical Study of Bribery Attitudes and Behavior. Alberto Simpser examines the persistence of corruption across two generations in Europe. Analysing data on second-generation immigrants, he finds that individuals from more corrupt countries are less likely to regard bribery as wrong—even when controlling for many other variables. This suggests that immigrants bring their culture with them when they move.