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Information and Credible Sanctions in Curbing Online Cheating Among Undergraduates : a Field Experiment
Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test … whether informing students they have been caught cheating reduces subsequent cheating. We find informing students about our … capability to detect plagiarism has little effect on cheating. Notifying students that they have been caught cheating and are on …
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Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap
Exley, Christine L.; Fisman, Raymond; Kessler, Judd B.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We analyze data from two universities that allowed students to conceal grades from their transcripts during the Covid … with real employers and a survey of impacted students. Our findings highlight how information-optional policies can create …
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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
List, John A. - 2017
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a cornerstone of modern business practice, developing from a "why" in the 1960s to a "must" today. Early empirical evidence on both the demand and supply sides has largely confirmed CSR's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a large-scale...
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Moral Boundaries
Enke, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article reviews the growing economics literature that studies the politico-economic impacts of heterogeneity in moral boundaries across individuals and cultures. The so-called universalism-versus-particularism cleavage has emerged as a main organizing principle behind various salient...
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland - 2011
Incorporating agents' imperfect knowledge of the distribution of preferences opens up to analysis several new questions. The first is social psychologists' practice of "norms-based interventions", namely campaigns and messages that seek to alter people's perceptions of what constitutes "normal"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461079
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Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2006
18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior … time. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466196
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Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes : Reconciling a Messy Literature
Corman, Hope - 2018
Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...
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Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2020
Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we show that people with lower income, less flexible work...
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No Strings Attached : The Behavioral Effects of U.S. Unconditional Cash Transfer Programs
Marinescu, Ioana - 2018
The universal basic income has become a widely discussed measure in policy circles around the world. In this review, we cover the evidence relevant to its potential impact in the US, and in developed countries more generally. Many studies find no statistically significant effect of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453377
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior
Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender differences in the associations between child behavioral problems and early adult earnings. They find large and significant earnings penalties for women who exhibited more headstrong...
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