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Dishonesty under scrutiny
Ven, Jeroen van de; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...
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Corrupted by algorithms? : how AI-generated and human-written advice shape (dis)honesty
Leib, Margarita; Köbis, Nils; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice (generated by a Natural-Language-processing algorithm) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent...
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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust … market economy and democracy. Our results show that the five best ranked countries are all western democracies. Our global … torn country. The deficits suggest that the Turkish state, Turkish civil society and European decision makers would be well …
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002549126
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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2007
. -- Economic development ; religion ; institutions …
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Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...
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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
based on an empirical analysis of World Values Survey data. In recent economic theory, Carvalho (2013) maintained that … in the Muslim world are closely interrelated. Thus, it is imperative that Western Feminism develops solidarity with …
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Environmental engagement, religion and spirituality in the context of secularization
Briguglio, Marie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2020
religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and … religion. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the question in a predominantly Roman Catholic European Union …
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Religion and cooperation across the globe
Caicedo, Felipe Valencia; Dohmen, Thomas; Pondorfer, Andreas - 2023
world religions. The association between religion and prosocial preferences is stronger in more populous societies and …Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We … contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation …
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