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Intergenerational transmission of preferences and parental behaviours

Coda Moscarola, Flavia; Del Boca, Daniela; Paladino, … - 2024

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of preferences between parents and their children, examining the transmission of patience, propensity to save, and conscientiousness. We explore the role of specific parental behaviours, such as sharing financial information, in this...

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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The adaptive liar : an interactionist approach of multiple dishonesty domains

Garcia-Rada, Ximena; Mann, Heather E.; Hornuf, Lars; … - 2018

honest behavior in one situation is independent from honest behavior in another situation. However, a third possibility is …

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When a nudge backfires : combining (im)plausible deniability with social and economic incentives to promote behavioral change

Bolton, Gary E.; Dimant, Eugen; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2020 - This version: January 17, 2020

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for … promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We connect three streams of literature (nudging, social preferences …

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Moral transgressions by groups : what drives individual voting behavior?

Feess, Eberhard; Kerzenmacher, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2020

voting behavior. …

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Behavioral New Keynesian models : learning vs. cognitive discounting

Meggiorini, Greta; Milani, Fabio - 2021

This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...

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Perceived wealth, cognitive sophistication and behavioral inattention

Assenza, Tiziana; Cardaci, Alberto; Delli Gatti, Domenico - 2019

By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance sheet profiles may be perceived as non fungible in a controlled frictionless environment with no probabilistic attributes. A large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in...

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Preferences, goals, and implications for paternalism

Krautwurm, Petr; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2025 - This version: February 1, 2025

This paper proposes a conceptual model of decision-making tying specific preferences to broader individual goals. In particular, the model considers two hierarchically ordered types of goals: Terminal goals, which represent fundamental objectives (e.g., health, social connection, etc.), and...

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Pandemics’ backlash : the effects of the 1918 influenza on health attitudes and behavior

Ochsner, Christian; Schmid, Lukas - 2025

subsequent shifts in health-related attitudes and behavior and future-oriented policies. Our analysis builds upon self …

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Limited self-knowledge and survey response behavior

Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2025

We study response behavior in surveys and propose a method to identify and improve the informativeness of survey … evidence. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that responses imperfectly reveal … behavior, and performs well relative to alternative methods proposed in the literature. …

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