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THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN': The eﬀect of institutions on behavior, cooperation, emotional attachment and sentiment at 26,000ft

Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - QUT Business School - 2013

This paper attempts to determine if the introduction of a competing social institution has had a signiﬁcant eﬀect and shifted the pro-social behavior in the extreme (life-and-death) environment of mountaineering in the Himalayan Mountains over the last sixty years. We apply an analytic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668004

Surviving the Titanic disaster: economic, natural and social determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264561

Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168314

Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162583

Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181683

Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196272

Surviving the Titantic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S; Savage, David A; Torgler, Benno - Law, Economics and Institutions, Boalt School of Law - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010536631

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