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Low self-control as a source of crime: A meta-study
Engel, Christoph - 2012
Self-control theory is one of the best studied criminological paradigms. Since Gottfredson and Hirschi published their General Theory in 1990 the theory has been tested on more than a million subjects. This meta-study systematizes the evidence, reporting 717 results from 102 different...
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Low self-control as a source of crime : a meta-study
Engel, Christoph - 2012
Self-control theory is one of the best studied criminological paradigms. Since Gottfredson and Hirschi published their General Theory in 1990 the theory has been tested on more than a million subjects. This meta-study systematizes the evidence, reporting 717 results from 102 different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503888
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Voice effects on attitudes towards an impartial decision maker : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Langenbach, Pascal; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013
derive utility merely from stating their opinion rather than from influencing the decision in their favor. In that regard …The opportunity to voice one's opinion about a decision is a fundamental aspect of procedural fairness and applies to a … large variety of economic interactions. Voice may influence decision makers, but at the same time it shapes behavior of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771811
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How voice shapes reactions to impartial decision makers : an experiment
Kleine, Marco; Langenbach, Pascal; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013 - revised version February 2014
We study how participation in decision processes shapes people's behavior towards impartial authorities. In an … incentivized laboratory experiment, an impartial decision maker at first decides about the allocation of money between two … decision is made ("voice"). We elicit the subordinate's attitude towards the impartial decision maker in a subsequent dictator …
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A portfolio of dilemmas : experimental evidence on choice bracketing in a mini-trust game
Ding, Jieyao - 2012
Bracketing is a mental procedure about how people deal with multiple tasks. If a decision maker handles all the tasks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518332
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Bargaining in the absence of property rights: An experiment
Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2015
The Coase theorem posits: If [1] property rights are perfect, [2] contracts are enforceable, [3] preferences are common knowledge, and [4] transaction costs are zero, then the initial alloca-tion of property rights only matters for distribution, not for efficiency. In this paper we claim that...
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If the worst comes to the worst: Dictator giving when recipient´s endowments are risky
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015
Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient...
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Insuring your donation: An experiment
Buijze, Renate; Engel, Christoph; Hemels, Sigrid - 2015
An increasing fraction of donations is channeled through donation intermediaries. These entities serve multiple purposes, one of which seems to be providing donors with greater certainty: that the donation reaches its intended goal, and that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We...
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Modeling a satisficing judge
Engel, Christoph; Güth, Werner - 2015
Judges and juries frequently must decide, knowing that they do not know everything that would be relevant for deciding the case. The law uses two related institutions for enabling courts to nonetheless decide the case: the standard of proof, and the burden of proof. In this paper, we contrast a...
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Cui bono, benefit corporation? An experiment inspired by social enterprise legislation in Germany and the US
Fischer, Sven; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Hamann, Hanjo - 2013
How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...
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