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Berlanda, Andrea; Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; … - 2022

The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conﬂict are largely unknown. This … violent events in African countries and sub-national regions. The eﬀect pertains to social violence and unrest, not civil war …

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Violence and socio-economic outcomes of Ukrainian refugees in Poland

Fidrmuc, Jan; Obrizan, Maksym; Stanek, Piotr - 2024

patterns of self-selection into becoming a refugee in Poland. We focus on how having experienced violence in the course of the … economically and in terms of their general wellbeing (happiness). Having experienced violence does not seem to compel Ukrainians to … become refugees, suggesting that they move preemptively, due to the threat of violence, and not after having experienced it …

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Emotion research in economics

Wälde, Klaus - 2016

or they study emotions out of interest for the emotion itself. While some analyses display a strong overlap between … approaches to emotion research. Ways how to reduce this gap are discussed. …

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Retrieving organs, losing motivation? : the response of medical staff to corruption News

Mähr, Maximilian; Sangrigoli, Alida; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; … - 2024

This paper examines how media coverage of corruption scandals influences the behavior of public healthcare workers, specifically ICU medical staff involved in organ procurement. Using Italy’s National Health Service as a case study, we investigate the behavioral responses of medical staff to...

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Perceived legitimacy and motivation effects of authority

Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024

Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end,...

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The lure of authority : motivation and incentive effects of power

Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - 2012

Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain...

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Norms and guilt

Danilov, Anastasia; Khalmetski, Kiryl; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

It has been argued that guilt aversion (the aversion to violate others' expectations) and the compliance to descriptive social norms (the aversion to act differently than others in the same situation) are important drivers of human behavior. We show in a formal model that both motives are...

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Pro bono work and trust in expert fields

Ong, David; Yang, Chun-lei - 2014 - This version: July 26, 2014

A controversy has been simmering in law for at least 30 years about whether pro bono work should be mandatory for lawyers, who now donate 1-3% of their time to the poor. This has centered on the unmet legal needs of the poor, the duty of lawyers, and the contrast with US doctors, who are...

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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force

Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...

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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2013

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...

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