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Dark versus light personality types and moral choice

Dickinson, David L. - 2023

, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …

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Incorporating conditional morality into economic decisions

Masclet, David; Dickinson, David L. - 2019

We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...

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Unethical decision making and sleep restriction: experimental evidence

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2021

Recent examinations into the cognitive underpinnings of ethical decision making has focused on understanding whether honesty is more likely to result from deliberative or unconscious decision processes. We randomly assigned participants to a multi-night sleep manipulation, after which they...

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Using ethical dilemmas to predict antisocial choices with real payoff consequences : an experimental study

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2018

Anti-social behaviours are costly to organizations, and the ability to identify predictors of such behaviours can be valuable. In this paper, we used a within-subjects laboratory design to study choices in the well-known (hypothetical) Trolley problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning...

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Personality, weak signals, and workplace relevant morality

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2024

Employers use applicant signals to help solve an asymmetric information problem in organizations. In this paper, we examine the impact of validated Dark versus Light personality traits on incentivized behaviors important to organizations: task effort, honesty, and reciprocity. A second study...

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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It … among women by nativity, urbanization, and region of the country. While foreign-born and illiterate women were more likely … greater the slave-intensity of the county, the less likely were free women to report having an occupation, particularly as …

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Women at work in the United States since 1860: an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2021

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is … due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census … takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force participation rate for free women in 1860 and compares it with the …

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Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020

Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were … exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and … an augmented free female labor force participation rate for 1860. It is calculated by identifying free women (age 16 and …

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...

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