We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt … individual thresholds for agreeing to a transgression, depending on the available options for sharing guilt by institutional … design. On the aggregate level, we study how institutions affect the likelihood of immoral outcomes. …

We study how institutional design in influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of … individual thresholds for agreeing to a transgression, depending on the available options for sharing guilt by institutional … design. On the aggregate level, we study how institutions affect the likelihood of immoral outcomes. …