Similar Search Results

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

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

Gender economics: an assessment

Sevilla, Almudena - 2020

Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent years, and Gender Economics is slowly affirming its place as a major field of study. This assessment examines where we are in terms of gender equality. It reviews the theoretical foundations that can explain...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316212

Women in economics: a UK perspective

Gamage, Danula K.; Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah - 2020

The status of women in economics in the US has come increasingly under the spotlight. We exploit high quality … administrative data to paint the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK academic economics departments in research …-intensive universities. Our evidence indicates that, as in the US, women in economics are under-represented and are paid less than men. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249614

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

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

Gender equality and positive action : evidence from UK universities

Gamage, Danula K.; Sevilla, Almudena - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the Athena Scientific Women's Academic Network (SWAN) Charter on the wages and … practice towards the representation and career progression of women in Science, Technology, Engineer, Mathematics, and Medicine …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992869

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

Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries

García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014

which family units (and women within families) remain primarily responsible for familial care obligations, and where the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434614

Marriage and housework

Borra, Cristina; Browning, Martin James; Sevilla, Almudena - 2017

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647542