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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma …
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Findley, Michael; Jensen, Nathan M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
theories regarding corporate culture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105062
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Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle
Piolatto, Amedeo; Rablen, Matthew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The standard expected utility model of tax evasion predicts that evasion is decreasing in the marginal tax rate (the Yitzhaki puzzle). The existing literature disagrees on whether prospect theory overturns the puzzle. We disentangle four distinct elements of prospect theory and find loss...
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884175
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
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Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices
Autiero, Giuseppina; O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends …
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Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification
Hunter, Boyd; Howlett, Monica; Biddle, Nicholas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or intensifies the emotional response to the object of...
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Linking Individuals and Societies
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703171
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Identity, Dignity and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
, which then come to define "who they are". Identity investments increase when information is scarce or when a greater … endowment of some asset (wealth, career, family, culture) raises the stakes on viewing it as valuable (escalating commitments … forceful response (exclusion, harassment) when they threaten a strongly held identity, but further erode morale when it was …
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