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Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2020

Ignorance enables individuals to act immorally. This is well known in policy circles, where there is keen interest in lowering moral ignorance. In this paper, we study the (in)elasticity of moral ignorance, with respect to monetary incentives, social norms messages and moral context. We propose...

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Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows : Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations

Ciani, Emanuele - 2019

Subjective expectations about future policy play an important role in individuals' welfare. We examine how workers' expectations about pension reform vary with proximity to reforms, information cost, and aggregate information acquisition. We construct a new pan-European dataset of reform...

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Spite vs. Risk : Explaining Overbidding

Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2019

In this paper we use an experiment to compare a theory of risk aversion and a theory of spite as an explanation for …

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The Introduction of Formal Insurance and its Effect on Redistribution

Anderberg, Dan - 2019

Transfers motivated by altruism, norms of giving, and guilt play an important role in supporting individuals who suffer losses due to risk. We present empirical evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Ethiopia in which we introduce formal insurance in a setting where donors make...

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Stay or Flee? Probability versus Severity of Punishment in Hit-and-Run Accidents

Castriota, Stefano - 2019

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

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Large Losses from Little Lies : Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality

Drouvelis, Michalis - 2020

Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications of this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive to human cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a...

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A Comparison of Regret Theory and Salience Theory for Decisions under Risk

Herweg, Fabian - 2020

Two non-transitive theories to model decision making under risk are regret theory (Loomes and Sugden, 1982, 1987) and … salience theory (Bordalo, Gennaioli, and Shleifer, 2012). While the psychological underpinning of these two approaches is … of choice behavior. We investigate the overlap between these theories and show that original regret theory (Loomes and …

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Cognitive Flexibility or Moral Commitment? Evidence of Anticipated Belief Distortion

Saccardo, Silvia - 2020

Do people anticipate the conditions that enable them to manipulate their beliefs when confronted with unpleasant information? We investigate whether individuals seek out the “cognitive flexibility” needed to distort beliefs in self-serving ways, or instead attempt to constrain it, committing...

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Globalization, Time-Preferences, and Populist Voting

Aronsson, Thomas - 2020

Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics model links impatience to voters' appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient...

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A Theory of Hypocrisy

Hallman, Alice; Spiro, Daniel - 2022

falsification, and the number of hypocrites depends on the weight of social esteem. Our theory thus shows how cultural parameters …

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