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Present-Focused Preferences and Sin Goods Consumption at the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Kalamov, Zarko; Runkel, Marco - 2020
, the strength of temptation and the cost of self-control do not affect the extensive margin. Hence, present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208002
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Temptation in Vote-Selling: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines
Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen G.; Ravanilla, Nico; … - 2014
-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one's vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self … at the moment of voting, but not for past selves who anticipate the vote-sale. We also allow keeping or breaking promises … regarding vote-selling to affect utility. Voters who are at least partially sophisticated about their vote-selling temptation …
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The political economy of sin taxes
Haavio, Markus; Kotakorpi, Kaisa Ilona - 2009
We analyse the determination of taxes on harmful goods when consumers have self-control problems. We show that under reasonable assumptions, the socially optimal corrective tax exceeds the average distortion caused by self-control problems. Further, we analyse how individuals with self-control...
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Estimating the Laffer Tax Rate on Capital Income: Cross-Base Responses Matter!
Lefebvre, Marie-Noëlle; Lehmann, Etienne; Sicsic, Michaël - 2022
We theoretically express the Laffer tax rate on capital income as a function of the elasticities of capital income (the "direct" elasticity) and of labor income (the "cross" elasticity) with respect to the net-of-tax rate on capital income. We estimate these elasticities using salient capital...
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Risk, Temptation, and Efficiency in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma
Gaechter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2021
) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … non-student subject pool, which allows us to assess generalizability of results. In both studies we find that temptation …
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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - 2013
We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333448
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Self Control and Intertemporal Choice: Evidence from Glucose and Depletion Interventions
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
is an increase in subjects' attention to the decision, rather than their ability to resist the temptation to get money …
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Information Nudges and Self-Control
Mariotti, Thomas; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora; von … - 2018
We study the optimal design of information nudges for present-biased consumers who have to make sequential consumption decisions without exact prior knowledge of their long-term consequences. For arbitrary distributions of risk, there exists a consumer-optimal information nudge that is of cutoff...
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Beliefs as a Means of Self-Control? Evidence from a Dynamic Student Survey
Bönisch, Felix; König, Tobias; … - 2024
We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort, in a large university course. A behavioral model of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs predicts that the dynamics of beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting self-control, such that believed returns increase as the...
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