Similar Search Results

Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2021

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315749

Homo Moralis : Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making

Deckers, Thomas - 2016

This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994702

Pleasures of Skill and Moral Conduct

Falk, Armin - 2016

This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral values. Subjects perform an IQ-test. They know that each correctly solved question increases the likelihood of moral transgression. In terms of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997309

Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice

Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2012

We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real incentives and two representative data sets. With the most commonly used type of design we replicate the typical finding of declining (hyperbolic) discounting, but with other designs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109751

A Theory of Reciprocity

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - CESifo - 2001

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765909

Appropriating the Commons A Theoretical Explanation

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - CESifo - 2001

In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181497

The Relationship between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Becker, Anke - 2012

Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107552

Learning About Job Search : A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany

Altmann, Steffen - 2015

We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects … job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021760

Lab Experiments are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences

Falk, Armin - 2010

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149009

Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2021

behavior of students and the general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316160