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Poverty and crime in 19th century Germany: A reassessment
Traxler, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614917
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Selfishness As a Potential Cause of Crime. A Prison Experiment
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013
For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667907
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At the Mercy of the Prisoner Next Door. Using an Experimental Measure of Selfishness as a Criminological Tool
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574249
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Cooperation under punishment: Imperfect information destroys it and centralizing punishment does not help
Fischer, Sven; Grechenig, Kristoffel; Meier, Nicolas - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013
We run several experiments which allow us to compare cooperation under perfect and imperfect information and under a centralized and decentralized punishment regime. We nd that (1) centralization by itself does not improve cooperation and welfare compared to an informal, peer-to-peer punishment...
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The Joint Benefits of Observed and Unobserved Punishment: Comment to Unobserved Punishment Supports Cooperation
Glöckner, Andreas; Kube, Sebastian; Nicklisch, Andreas - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011
Laboratory experiments by Fudenberg and Pathak (2010), and Vyrastekova, Funaki and Takeuch (2008) show that punishment is able to sustain cooperation in groups even when it is observed only in the end of the interaction sequence. Our results demonstrate that the real power of unobserved...
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Second-Best Pollution Taxation and Environmental Quality
Gaube, Thomas - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2005
This paper deals with second-best pollution taxation by investigating allocations instead of the corresponding tax rates. Assuming certain restrictions on utility and that the marginal revenue from environmental taxation is positive, it is shown that environmental quality is higher in second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633205
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Punishment despite Reasonable Doubt – A Public Goods Experiment with Uncertainty over Contributions
Grechenig, Kristoffel; Nicklisch, Andreas; Thöni, Christian - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
Under a great variety of legally relevant circumstances, people have to decide whether or not to cooperate, when they face an incentive to defect. The law sometimes provides people with sanctioning mechanisms to enforce pro-social behavior. Experimental evidence on voluntary public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633221
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Altruism and charitable giving in a fully replicated economy
Gaube, Thomas - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2005
In this paper, an economy is analyzed where one group of agents, the altruists, cares about the well-being of another group of agents, the recipients. It is asked how changes in the size of these groups affect the altruists’ charitable giving in the Nash equilibrium. I show that a pure group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633226
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On Probation. An Experimental Analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2009
Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive. Moreover it struggles with an identification problem: those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567631
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On the legitimacy of coercion for the financing of public goods
Bierbrauer, Felix - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2009
The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567935