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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence
Falk, Armin - 2017
the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …
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Awards as signals
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2010
Awards are widespread in all countries and are prevalent both in the public sphere and in the private sector. This paper argues, and empirically supports, that awards serve public functions and economists should take them seriously. Using a unique cross-country data set, we suggest that awards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699735
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition
Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434452
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Market competition and efficient cooperation
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno - 2016
We use laboratory experiments to study the causal effects of favorable and unfavorable competitive market experience on cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral spillovers between different spheres of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414636
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The bonus-income donation norm
Drouvelis, Michalis; Isen, Adam; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019
Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...
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Political economists are neither selfish nor indoctrinated
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001
Most professional economists believe that economists in general are more selfish than other persons and that this greater selfishness is due to economics education. This paper offers empirical evidence against this widely held belief. Using a unique data set about giving behavior in connection...
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Commitment to pay taxes : a field experiment on the importance of promise
Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; Torgler, Benno; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2016
The ability of a tax authority to successfully collect taxes depends critically on both its relationship with the taxpayers and how strongly these taxpayers are committed to contributing to the common good. We present evidence on a new non-intrusive approach aimed at fostering the commitment to...
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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2017
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
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