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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318385
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138532
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588918
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872604
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062026
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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants : 1980 - 2000
Blau, Francine D. (contributor);  … - 2008
assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759757
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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-hsu - 2008
fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759915
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Changes in the labor supply behavior of married women: 1980 - 2000
Blau, Francine D. (contributor);  … - 2006
Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 1990s. Moreover, a major new development was that, during both decades, there was a dramatic reduction in women's own wage … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339775