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The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence
Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959559
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Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory
Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of people with social preferences has important implications in many economic domains. However, it is important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283588
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In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents
Goeree, Jacob K.; Riedl, Arno; Ule, Aljaz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with decay and two-way flow of benefits by allowing for agents with lower linking costs or higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703123
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Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border
Gathmann, Christina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using … a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and … punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on smuggling prices is small. Though enforcement has more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763903
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The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon
Chimeli, Ariaster B.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Agents operating in illegal markets cannot resort to the justice system to guarantee property rights, to enforce contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous agreements and to fight for market share. This...
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884182
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Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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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Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...
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