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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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The economics of assisted reproduction

Kossoudji, Sherrie A. (contributor) - 2005

Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...

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Laws and norms

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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Why is child labor illegal?

Dessy, Sylvain Eloi (contributor); Knowles, John (contributor) - 2007

"We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is …

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A soul's view of the optimal population problem

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021

progress, we consider the population problem in an environment where population is variable, but there is a fixed supply of …

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The economic approach to personality, character and virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - 2023

economics of virtue ethics. Character traits and personality are not considered immutable in either field. They are shaped by … content to virtue ethics and suggest what virtue ethics contributes to the study of economic models. …

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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …

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Another look at the New York City school voucher experiment

Krueger, Alan B.; Zhu, Pei - 2002

This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public school students in grades K-4 were eligible to participate in a series of lotteries for a private...

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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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The risk and return of human capital investments

Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - 2013

income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime income at different levels of education. We find that university … education is associated with about a half a million euro increase in discounted lifetime disposable income compared to … with only moderately higher lifetime income compared to compulsory education, and the entire difference is due to …

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