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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 - 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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Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco A.; Trieu, Chi - 2022

Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in … the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different … low productivity individuals is not perceived as fairer than an absence of affirmative action. Higher fairness perceptions …

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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco A.; Trieu, Chi - 2023

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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 - 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...

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Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behavior?

Drouvelis, Michalis; Georgantzis, Nikolaos - 2019

Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...

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Do Economic Preferences of Children Predict Behavior?

Breitkopf, Laura; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Priyam, Shambhavi; … - 2024

We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incen-tivized measures of social, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children's economic preferences predict their behavior. Re-sults from...

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Self-Assessment: The Role of the Social Environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...

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Giving and Costless Retaliation in the Power-to-Take Game

Drouvelis, Michalis; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Shimada, Natsumi; … - 2023

Extending the power-to-take game, we explore the impact of two forces that may shape retaliation. In our 2x2 design, i) in addition to taking, the proposers can give part of their endowment to the responders, and ii) in addition to destroying their own endowment in retaliation, the responders...

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Cheating in Labour Markets

Drouvelis, Michalis; Kocher, Martin G. - 2021

workplace may have on the degree of reciprocity between firms and workers. First, we replicate existing findings showing that in …

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