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Homo Moralis : Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making
Deckers, Thomas - 2016
institutions compared to situations of individual decision-making. Intelligence, female gender, and the existence of siblings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997434
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Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions
Masclet, David - 2019
We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858837
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Honest on Mondays : Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley J. - 2013
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083383
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Market Design and Moral Behavior
Kirchler, Michael - 2015
different institutional regimes – one with individual decision making, one with a double-auction market – we expose the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023776
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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members …Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … discusses another alternative: independent individual models of decision-making that don't make any specific assumptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139037
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Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2012
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices …'s characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104671
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Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply
Aaberge, Rolf - 2006
During the last two decades, the discrete-choice modelling of labour supply decisions has become increasingly popular, starting with Aaberge et al. (1995) and van Soest (1995). Within the literature adopting this approach there are however two potentially important issues that are worthwhile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780622
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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Barth, Daniel - 2017
Recent advances in behavioral genetics have enabled the discovery of genetic scores linked to a variety of economic outcomes, including education. We build on this progress to demonstrate that the same genetic variants that predict educational attainment independently predict household wealth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962275
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Testing the Advantages of Conscious vs. Unconscious Thought for Complex Decisions in a Distraction Free Paradigm
McElroy, Todd - 2016
In this study we test predictions from Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT) that unconscious thought will lead to better … decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we … processing in complex decision making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979447
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When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur : The Case of Income Comparisons
Clark, Andrew - 2015
these two sets of results. This kind of validation of experienced utility via direct comparison with decision utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016299