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Tempering the taste for vengeance : information about prisoners and policy choices in Chile

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Cafferata, Fernando G.; … - 2020

Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This creates prison overcrowding and can lead to recidivism. Harsh penalties are often demanded by citizens, making them politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual...

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Households' risk perceptions, overplacement, and financial literacy

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Fessler, Pirmin; Silgoner, Maria … - 2024

Household financial resilience is related to the availability of financial resources but also to the ability to anticipate and assess future situations and prepare for them accordingly. Overplacement describes the tendency of individuals to rate themselves better than others, i.e. they believe...

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Altruism or money? : reducing teacher sorting using behavioral strategies in Peru

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; … - 2020

consisted of an "Altruistic Identity" treatment arm, which primed teachers altruistic identity by making it more salient, and an …

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Social proximity and misinformation : experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2022

We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative sample of slum residents in two major Indian cities...

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Loving cultural heritage : private individual giving and prosocial behavior

Bertacchini, Enrico; Santagata, Walter; Signorello, Giovanni - 2010

The aim of this paper is to analyse patterns of private individual giving to Cultural Heritage institutions in Italy. Based on the emerging economic literature on pro-social behavior, we carried out a Contingent Valuation survey to assess individuals’ willingness to donate to museums and...

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The right amount of trust

Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2010

income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled … with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate beliefs about others from their own levels of trustworthiness, could … generate this non-monotonic relationship: highly trustworthy individuals tend to form overly optimistic beliefs, to assume too …

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A theory of firm decline

Sabatini, Fabio - 2010

This paper carries out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of couples’ childbearing decisions in Italy. Since having children is in most cases a “couple matter”, the analysis accounts for the characteristics of both the possible parents. Our results do not support...

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Do we care about built cultural heritage? : the empirical evidence based on the Veneto house market

Rosato, Paolo; Rotaris, Lucia; Breil, Margaretha; … - 2008

Italian historical buildings require urgent and costly maintenance and restoration works, but neither the local, nor the national public administrators can afford these expenditures. Nevertheless the built cultural heritage represent a unique resource of the territory, as it embodies the local...

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A multicriteria approach for the evaluation of the sustainability of re-use of historic buildings in Venice

Breil, Margaretha; Giove, Silvio; Rosato, Paolo - 2008

The paper presents a multiple criteria model for the evaluation of the sustainability of projects for the economic re-use of historical buildings in Venice. The model utilises the relevant parameters for the appraisal of sustainability, aggregated into three macro-indicators: intrinsic...

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Keeping up with the e-Joneses : do online social networks raise social comparisons?

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2016

Online social networks, such as Facebook, disclose an unprecedented volume of personal information amplifying the occasions for social comparisons, which can be a cause of frustration. We test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases social comparisons as proxied by...

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