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Previous studies have shown that an oath can reduce lying at an individual level. Can oaths reduce lying in groups, a context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results from a lab experiment reveal that the impact of an oath on lying in a group context depends on the incentive...
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the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability … of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across … incentives, subjects steal more the stronger the incentives. We observe two types of subjects: selfish subjects who act according …
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offers, projects to educate people or even monetary incentives, are employed relatively extensively by the health insurers … and incentives are neither evaluated nor compared with one another. Conclusions: The relatively extensive range of …
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This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is … merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate precise measures of the economic incentives for … also the fixed costs of work. The results indicate large dis-incentives effects for some groups, especially low paid women …
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A large share of the population in emerging market economies has no pension coverage, exposing them to the economic risks arising from socio-economic and individual shocks. This problem, which arises from having large informal (unregulated) sectors, affects not only poor workers, but as many as...
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