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Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?
Dahl, Gordon B.; DellaVigna, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze whether media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We...
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Are Women More Attracted to Cooperation Than Men?
Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
. Key factors explaining gender patterns in attraction to co-operative incentives across experimental conditions include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212812
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How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness
Niederle, Muriel; Vesterlund, Lise; Segal, Carmit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
, but also on one's rank within gender. Both beliefs on rank and attitudes towards competition change when moving to a more … gender-specific competition. The changes in competitive entry have important implications when assessing the costs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714031
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Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society
Leonard, Kenneth; list, john; Gneezy, Uri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This study uses a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive … providing insights into the underpinnings of the factors hypothesized to be determinants of the observed gender differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714515
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Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions
Niederle, Muriel; Yestrumskas, Alexandra H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
of which will be chosen for payment). Although there are no gender differences in performance, or beliefs about relative … performance, men choose the hard task about 50 percent more frequently than women, independent of performance level. Gender … differences in preferences for characteristics of the tasks cannot account for this gender gap. When we allow for a flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829743
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Estimating Individual Ambiguity Aversion: A Simple Approach
list, john; Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We introduce a simple, easy to implement instrument for jointly eliciting risk and ambiguity attitudes. Using this instrument, we structurally estimate a two-parameter model of preferences. Our findings indicate that ambiguity aversion is significantly overstated when risk neutrality is assumed....
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Trust and Cheating
Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi; Butler, Jeffrey V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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Trust, Values and False Consensus
Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi; Butler, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...
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The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of human development. Inequalities in family environments and investments in children are substantial....
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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self esteem and his social environment in the workplace, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent,...
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