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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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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling

Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

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The women empowering effect of higher education

Elsayed, Ahmed; Shirshikova, Alina - 2023

-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …, particularly for women. …

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Empowering women under social constraints : evidence from a field intervention in rural Egypt

Elsayed, Ahmed; Roushdy, Rania - 2017

Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with … to relax human capital constraints for women by offering vocational, business and life skills training in 30 villages in … rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …

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