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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Friehe, Tim - 2014

criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and …We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for … locus of control), and a self-control scale from criminology. We find that economic preferences, personality traits, and …

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Behavior Under Social Pressure : Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Priks, Mikael - 2021

This paper studies how social pressure affects the behavior of soccer referees. We make use of an attractive source of exogenous variation in the number of spectators at matches. Due to recent hooligan violence, the Italian government has implemented a regulation that forces some soccer teams to...

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Smoking and Social Interaction

Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars - 2021

psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask …

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Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre C. - 2016

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment...

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The Dynamics of Dictator Behavior

Sass, Markus; Timme, Florian; Weimann, Joachim - 2021

Choosing between selfish and non-selfish behavior in real life is a repeated decision with varying time spans between repetitions. To learn more about the dynamics of altruistic behavior, we use repeated standard dictator experiments. The dynamics of prosocial behavior in these experiments...

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Determinants of Trust : the Role of Personal Experiences

Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2021

Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals’ inclination to trust...

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Adaptive Social Learning

March, Christoph - 2016

The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their experience gained in past rounds to draw inferences from...

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The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation : Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2017

Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...

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Social Comparisons in Oligopsony

Goerke, Laszlo - 2017

A large body of evidence suggests that social comparisons matter for workers' valuation of the wage they receive. The consequences of social comparisons in imperfectly competitive labor markets are less well understood. We analyze an oligopsonistic model of the labor market where workers derive...

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Relational Altruism and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2016

Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate:(i) a positive relationship between social group size and the number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the size of individual donations; (iii) no...

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