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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker : the peer effect of Jose Canseco
Gould, Eric D. (contributor); Kaplan, Todd R. (contributor) - 2008
. -- Peer effects ; corruption ; crime ; externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656908
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Partners in crime : diffusion of responsibility in antisocial behaviors
Behnk, Sascha; Hao, Li; Reuben, Ernesto - 2017
crime, senders think that behaving antisocially is more acceptable and experience less guilt. Importantly, we identify a … crucial condition for the increased antisocial behavior by groups: the partner in crime must actively participate in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732087
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Nature, nurture and egalitarian policy : what can we learn from molecular genetics?
Lundborg, Petter; Stenberg, Anders - 2009
This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an overview of the recently emerging evidence of gene-environment interaction effects. This literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920255
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Are attitudes towards economic risk heritable? : analyses using the Australian twin study of gambling
Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W.; Slutske, Wendy S.; … - 2010
This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and females. Consistent with Cesarini, Dawes, Johannesson,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949483
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Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414017
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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019
We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099447
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Investigating the genetic architecture of non-cognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction
Demange, Perline A.; Malanchini, Margherita; Mallard, … - 2020
Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we use Genomic Structural Equation Modelling and prior genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of EA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210627
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Why has science become an old man's game?
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023
We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326208
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Uncovering the gender participation gap in the crime market
Gavrilova, Evelina; Campaniello, Nadia - 2015
committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives … face a 10% higher probability of arrest with respect to males. Once we account for type of crime and the attributes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510505
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The changing returns to crime : do criminals respond to prices?
Draca, Mirko; Koutmeridis, Theodore; Machin, Stephen - 2015
In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse … this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on criminal incidents in London between 2002 and 2012 … burglary incidents. We first consider a panel of consumer goods covering the majority of market goods stolen in the crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283155