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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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Roots of Autocracy

Galor, Oded - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...

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A Theory of Trade Policy Under Dictatorship and Democratization

Zissimos, Ben - 2017

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two … is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …

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Spatial Concentration of Military Dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977-2007)

Caruso, Raul - 2014

We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...

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Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany

Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2021

-Nazi radio broadcast following Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor. During the consolidation of dictatorship, radio …

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Mine, Ours and Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games

Bergh, Andreas - 2018

This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...

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Gender Effects in Dictator Game Giving : Women Favour Female Recipients

Baltrusch, Maximilian - 2018

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning...

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Domestic Abuse : Instrumental Violence and Economic Incentives

Anderberg, Dan - 2011

implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various … incidence of domestic violence. Instead, specific measures and incentives may have to be targeted at different types of …

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Unemployment and Gang Crime : Could Prosperity Backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...

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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - 2006

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...

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