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Human ethics and virtues : rethinking the homo-economicus model
Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2017
outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …
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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment
Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022
Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...
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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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Animal welfare and human ethics : a personality study
Albrecht, Konstanze; Krämer, Marius-Florentin; Szech, Nora - 2017
We revisit the long-standing question whether there is a relation between animal welfare and human ethics. Therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717061
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The (in)elasticity of moral ignorance
Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2019
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. Consistent with our model, we find significant...
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Will increased wages reduce shortage of nurses? : a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Baltagi, Badi H.; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2002
Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a … viable policy for extracting more labour supply from nurses. In this paper we use a unique matched panel data set of … Norwegian nurses covering the period 1993-1998 to estimate wage elasticities. The data set includes detailed information on 19 …
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Gender differences in honesty : groups versus individuals
Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - 2014
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under group decisions. We find more lying in male...
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How does unethical behavior spread? : gender matters!
Böhm, Kim L.; Goerg, Sebastian J.; … - 2023
Whether trade can achieve societal change is a contested topic and difficult to investigate. This round-up aims at summarizing recent empirical research on this topic while focusing on democracy and democratization as an important part of societal change. No robust results for change arising...
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Wages anatomy : labor supply of nurses and a comparison with physicians
Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2014
We estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of Registered Nurses’ labor supply with random terms. A distinguished … past optimal choices matter for the current choices. Given observed incentives, we find that nurses are mobile when they … retirement age. Wage increases have a modest impact on labor supply. The overall elasticity for nurses is close to zero (like for …
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Nursing home choice, family bargaining and optimal policy in a hotelling economy
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2016
The family plays a central role in decisions relative to the provision of long term care (LTC). We develop a model of family bargaining to study the impact of the distribution of bargaining power within the family on the choices of nursing homes, and on the location and prices chosen by nursing...
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