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Common sense supports prevention policies aimed at improving survival prospects among the population. It is also widely …-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the compatibility of those two concerns: prevention against early death and compensation for … early death. We show that, under mild conditions, no social ordering on allocations can satisfy a concern for prevention and …
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/or (4) develop a psychological harassment prevention process. The paper argues managers may effectively combat psychological …
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We develop a model where consumers do not have ex-ante private information on their risk but can decide to acquire such information before insurance policy purchase. Adverse selection can arise endogenouslyin the insurance market. We focus on the case where information has decision-making value:...
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laboratory studies, the demand for punishment and reward are studied separately from one another. This paper presents the results … from an experiment measuring the demand for reward and punishment by 'unaffected' third parties, separately and jointly. We … find that the demand for costly punishment is substantially lower when individuals are also given the ability to reward …
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This paper reports the results from a real-effort team production experiment, where best performers can impose either tacit or explicit sanctions on their less-performing partners. The behavior of the best performer in the team differs from one condition to another. When explicit sanctions are...
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This paper reports the results of an experiment that investigates the relationships between inequality and punishment …. In particular, we analyze how inter-personal comparisons affect altruistic punishment behavior. In addition, we examine … how punishment affects inequality over time. We compare two treatments of a two-stage public good game, one in which …
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opportunity to punish others on the level contributions in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism. The punishment is costly for … both the players distributing and those receiving the punishment. Like Fehr and Gaechter, we find that agents often engage … in non-credible costly punishment behavior in order to reduce earnings of others who contribute low amounts to the public …
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third parties, and punish low contributors, even when punishment is costly to the sanctioner. When there are five rounds of …
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We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables based on … other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal offenses, the effect on the overall …
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In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … positively correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables … unaffected all other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal offenses, the effect on the …
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