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 individual characteristics and how these characteristics interact with market …

. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact … competitiveness. While markets have been considered as detrimental for moral behavior, it has turned out a challenging task to … identify where moral behavior is reflected in a market. Recent work has suggested that falling prices in markets with …

moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine … deontological moral reminder ("corruption is immoral") leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist … moral reminder, pointing out that bribes are costly to taxpayers, shows no significant effect. Furthermore, we do not find …

interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including … their possible impact on moral values, is necessary to make informed decisions on the spheres in society where the … erodes moral values." Although we replicate their main treatment effect, we show that additional treatments are necessary to …

, positive relation between caring for animal welfare and moral dispositions. …

, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This "static moral self …-licensing" would extend the logic of the well studied moral self-licensing over time. Our data document that static moral self …-licensing exists. Furthermore, effects spill over to later, unrelated but ethically relevant contexts. Thus, static moral self …

We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We … propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance … benchmark treatments. We show that the demand curve for moral ignorance exhibits a sharp kink, of about 50 percent, when moving …

This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a … social norms of moral behavior for limiting the power of the replacement excuse, our paper informs the long-standing debate …

use a simple heuristic of maximizing legal monetary payoffs, but they are not less altruistic or less moral; they exhibit … context dependent preferences. Conditional on choosing the public sector, less moral subjects are more likely to choose the …