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The problems of disadvantaged youth : an economic perspective

Gruber, Jonathan (ed.) - 2009

Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber -- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth -- Is gaining access to selective elementary...

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A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers

Asiedu, Edward; Karlan, Dean; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Ethics in social science experimentation and data collection are often discussed but rarely articulated in writing as part of research outputs. Although papers typically reference human subjects research approvals from relevant institutional review boards, most recognize that such boards are not...

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Choosing the Future : Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting

Millner, Antony; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper provides a critical review of the literature on choosing social discount rates (SDRs) for public cost-benefit analysis. We discuss two dominant approaches, the first based on market prices, and the second based on intertemporal ethics. While both methods have attractive features,...

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The Moral Preferences of Investors : Experimental Evidence

Bonnefon, Jean-François; Landier, Augustin; Sastry, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We characterize investors' moral preferences in a parsimonious experimental setting, where we auction stocks with …

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Integrating Ethical Values and Economic Value to Steer Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Korinek, Anton - 2019

moral evaluation of actions in our society. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) forces humanity to confront new areas …

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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology

Enke, Benjamin - 2020

paper proposes that what partly explains the structure of ideology is moral universalism: the extent to which people …

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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

Cultural transmission arguably plays an important role in the determination of many fundamental preference traits (e.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards family and fertility practices, and attitudes...

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Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2008

We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the … individuals to build an introspective reputation for goodness ("moral capital") and for good actions to lead to a stronger … disposition to do good. Bad actions destroy moral capital and lock-in further wrongdoing. Economic shocks that result in higher …

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Social Capital as Good Culture

Guiso, Luigi - 2007

To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...

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Economic Analysis of Welfare Economics, Morality and the Law

Shavell, Steven - 2003

This paper contains the chapters on welfare economics, morality, and the law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). I begin in chapter 26 with a discussion of the normative foundations of economic analysis, namely, the subject...

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