Are upper class individuals less ethical? Highly popularized research findings support this notion. This paper provides a novel test to evaluate the relationship between social status and ethical behavior. We successfully prime a large heterogeneous sample of the German population as either high...

The relationship between social status and ethical behavior is a widely debated topic in research. In their study, Gsottbauer et al. (2022b) investigate whether higher socio-economic status is linked to lower ethical behavior, using data from two large survey experiments involving over 11,000...

We conduct a representative survey experiment in Germany to understand why people support inefficient policies. In particular, we measure beliefs about and preferences for rent control - a policy that is widely regarded as harmful by experts. To tease out causal mechanisms, we provide randomly...

We conduct a representative survey experiment in Germany to understand why people support inefficient policies. In particular, we measure beliefs about and preferences for rent control -- a policy that is widely regarded as harmful by experts. To tease out causal mechanisms, we provide randomly...

We conduct a representative survey experiment in Germany to understand why people support inefficient policies. In particular, we measure beliefs about and preferences for rent control - a policy that is widely regarded as harmful by experts. To tease out causal mechanisms, we provide randomly...

We revisit Hawkins’ (Comput Stat 9(3):233–247, <CitationRef CitationID="CR15">1994</CitationRef>) algorithm for fitting monotonic polynomials and discuss some practical issues that we encountered using this algorithm, for example when fitting high degree polynomials or situations with a sparse design matrix but multiple observations...</citationref>

We show that both parametric distribution functions appearing in extreme value theory have log-concave densities if the extreme value index [gamma][set membership, variant][-1,0] and that all distribution functions F with log-concave density belong to the max-domain of attraction of the...