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We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...
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This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We … validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real …. We explore how moral behavior varies with individual characteristics and how these characteristics interact with market …
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. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact … competitiveness. While markets have been considered as detrimental for moral behavior, it has turned out a challenging task to … identify where moral behavior is reflected in a market. Recent work has suggested that falling prices in markets with …
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degree of moral behavior when subjects make decisions that can generate negative externalities on uninvolved parties … different interventions to a kind of robustness check. We find that the threat of monetary punishment promotes moral behavior in …
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We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea … moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation is conditional and may be influenced by others' actions …. Specifically, in our framework moral obligation is a combination of two main components: an autonomous component and a social …
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task that presents a monetary temptation to be dishonest, and a hypothetical moral dilemma task. The results overall …
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Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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"We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent with the fact that poor parents tend to oppose such laws. We find that if altruistic parents are unable to commit to educating their children, child-labor laws can increase...
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"community standards" are also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material …
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