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Bad boys: how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013
regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
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The Role of Equality, Efficiency, and Rawlsian Motives in Social Preferences: A Reply to Engelmann and Strobel
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
In a recent paper Engelmann and Strobl claim that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is far more important than inequity aversion. Here we show that the relevance of the efficiency motive is largely restricted to students of...
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The Envious Punisher: Understanding Third and Second Party Punishment with Simple Games
Leibbrandt, Andreas; López-Pérez, Raúl - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
We provide a systematic comparison of punishment from unaffected third parties and affected second parties using a within-subject design in ten simple games. We apply the classification analysis by El-Gamal and Grether (1995) and find that a parsimonious model assuming subjects are either...
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Does willful ignorance deflect punishment? – An experimental study
Weber, Roberto A.; Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013
This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...
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Let the market decide: an experimental study of competition and fairness
Bartling, Björn; Zehnder, Christian; Manuel, Grieder - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers. Sellers who feel shortchanged can engage in counterproductive behavior to punish the buyer. We find that the same unfavorable terms of trade...
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Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups
Sutter, M.; Kocher, M. G. - The Field Experiments Website - 2006
We examine the degree of trust and trustworthiness in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different age groups, ranging from 8-year-olds to retired persons. Although both trust and trustworthiness have been identified as fundamental pillars for efficient economic...
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The Effect of Sunk Costs on the Outcome of Alternating-Offers Bargaining between Inequity-Averse Agents
Ewerhart, Christian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
The paper analyzes the infinite-horizon alternating-offers bargaining game between agents with inequity-averse preferences. Without prior investments, the model predicts a shift of the outcome towards equal division. Asymmetric investments affect the ex-post bargaining outcome, giving an...
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Digit ratio (2D:4D) and altruism: evidence from a large, multi-ethnic sample
Galizzi, Matteo M.; Nieboer, Jeroen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
We look at the links between the Digit Ratio - the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger – for both right and left hands, and giving in a Dictator Game. Unlike previous studies with exclusively Caucasian subjects, we recruited a large, ethnically diverse...
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Down and Out in Italian towns: measuring the impact of economic downturns on crime
Menon, Carlo; de Blasio, Guido - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The paper investigates the effect of local economic conditions on crime. The study focuses on Italy’s local labor … markets and analyzes the short-term response of crime to the severe slump of 2007-2009. It shows that the downturn led to a …-worker contractual arrangements) had a role in slowing down the effect of the economy on crime; ii) the link between the downturn and …
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Crime and the transition to marriage. The roles of gender and partner’s criminal involvement
Monsbakken, Christian Weisæth; Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde; … - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
Several previous studies have argued that marriage leads to a decline in criminal propensity. Most of these studies have focused on men and have given little attention to the characteristics of their partner and events related to changes in offending. In this article, we use Norwegian registry...
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