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issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable ("belief-based") protection indeed leads to more reports, both …
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and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment – emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma game. We find that third-party punishment exhibits a strikingly positive effect on … cooperation rates by doubling them in comparison to a control condition. It promotes cooperative behavior even before punishment …
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of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …
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How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
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the results of a two-round experiment designed to expose student cheating at the individual level and correlate it with … exam score (PES). The experiment involved two classes of third-year economics students incentivized by a competitive reward …
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-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low … penalty. In Experiment 1, two treatments are designed to study the effect of a low probability of detection with high penalty …
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
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We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study …
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The present paper reports the results of an experiment which studied the effects of parents' marital status (divorced … of honesty was assessed by a flip-coin task which rewarded a self-reported favorable outcome. The experiment gave rise to …
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