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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …
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We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but … the willingness to pay and the potential misperception of probabilities as elicited in the experiment, we do not detect …
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take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test … the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative …
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economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …
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We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in …
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