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Individual oath-swearing and lying under peer pressure
Kingsuwankul, Sorravich - 2023
Previous studies have shown that an oath can reduce lying at an individual level. Can oaths reduce lying in groups, a context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results from a lab experiment reveal that the impact of an oath on lying in a group context depends on the incentive...
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Status-seeking in violent subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance
Dur, Robert A. J. - 2006
This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...
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Holi crimes
Martínez, Claudia; Poblete-Cazenave, Rubén - 2024
A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable portion of such incidents occurring in public spaces. Harmful social norms emphasizing men's power over women have been highlighted as one crucial culprit. We study a public festivity...
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How to reduce discrimination? : evidence from a field experiment in amateur soccer
Dur, Robert A. J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022 - This version: 17 January 2022
A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known …, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together … discrimination. …
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Same work, lower grade? : student ethnicity and teachers' subjective assessments
Ewijk, Reyn van - 2010
Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382659
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The welfare effects of discrimination in insurance
Noll, Rob van der - 2005
side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate … find that aggregate surplus decreases when risk aversion is high. When risk aversion is low however, discrimination …
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Don't demotivate, discriminate
Kamphorst, Jurjen J. A.; Swank, Otto H. - 2014
This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to … employees expect to be favored. The manager, who has no taste for discrimination, discriminates in order to avoid demotivating …
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Who wants safer streets? : explaining concern for public safety in Brazil
Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - 2001
Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generatesthose concerns ? Is … it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has a …
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Risky moms, risky kids? : fertility and crime after the fall of the wall
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2019
We study the link between parental selection and child criminality. Following the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, the number of births halved in East Germany. These cohorts became markedly more likely to be arrested as they grew up in reunified Germany. This is observed for both...
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An urban overhead? : crime, agglomeration, and amenity
Donovan, Stuart; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; … - 2023
Using data for 134 locations in New Zealand, we study the effects of crime and agglomeration on urban amenity. We find … that crime has significant negative effects on the value of urban amenity, with elasticities of approximately −0.06 for … approximately 2-3 times more sensitive to crime than average temperature. More uniquely, we find that controlling for crime leads to …
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