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Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

Working with a sample of individuals from 43 countries, including some of the most and least corrupt in the world, we run an experiment in which: `private citizens` have to decide whether and how much to offer `public servants` in exchange for corrupt services; `public servants` have to decide...

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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Furtado, Delia; Marcen, Miriam - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining differences in divorce rates by … of the effect of culture. The quantitatively significant estimated effects of culture are robust to controlling for a … divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males pointing to a potentially gendered …

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Homo Aequalis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games

Barr, Abigail; Wallace, Chris - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

Data from three bargaining games - the Dictator Game, the Ultimatum Game, and the Third-Party Punishment Game - played in 15 societies are presented. The societies range from US undergraduates to Amazonian, Arctic, and African hunter-gatherers. Behaviour within the games varies markedly...

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Women`s Organisations, Maternal Knowledge, and Social Capital to Reduce Prevalence of Stunted Children - Evidence from Rural Nepal

Imai, Katsushi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

This study analyses behaviour of women community based organisations in two districts in Nepal in reducing prevalence of child malnutrition in member households. Our survey focused on three sets of women organisations: those that receive intensive external support are compared with those that...

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The effects of externalities and framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Using a simple one-shot bribery game, we find evidence of a negative externality effect and a framing effect. When the losses suffered by third parties due to a bribe being offered and accepted are high and the game is presented as a petty corruption scenario instead of in abstract terms...

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Bargaining for bribes under uncertainty

Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

A corrupt transaction is often the result of bargaining between the parties involved. This paper models bribery as a double auction where a private citizen and a public official strategically interact as the potential buyer and the potential seller of a corrupt service. Individuals differ in...

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Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Accountability: Evidence from a Bribery Experiment

Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Monitoring corruption typically relies on top-down interventions aimed at increasing the probability of external controls and the severity of punishment. An alternative approach to fighting corruption is to induce bottom-up pressure for reform. Recent studies have shown that both top-down...

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Corruption and culture: An Experimental Analysis

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Why do some people choose corruption over honesty and others not? Do the social norms and values prevailing in the societies in which they grew up affect their decisions? In 2005, we conducted a bribery experiment and found that, among undergraduates, we could predict who would act corruptly...

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Externality and framing effects in a bribery experiment

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Using a simple one-shot bribery game, we find evience of a negative externality effect and a framing effect. When the losses suffered by a third parties due to a bribe being offered and accepted are increased bribes are less likely to be offered and accepted. And when the game is presented...

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A Note on Leisure Inequality in the US: 1965-2003

Sanz, Almudena Sevilla; Nadal, Jose Ignacio GImenez - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Despite the well-documented increase in the relative wages and expenditures of highly-educated individuals in the U.S. in recent decades, leisure inequality mirrors inequality of wages, i.e. we observe that highly-educated individuals have now relatively less leisure time than lower-educated...

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