Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 28,235
Cover Image
Does crime affect economic decisions? An empirical investigation of savings in a high-crime environment
De Mello, João M. P.; Zilberman, Eduardo - 2008
data on crime rates and savings per capita in a high-crime environment, we document a striking empirical relationship …: crime induces savings. Our paper is one of the first to successfully relate crime to an economic outcome. This result is …) accounting for the fact that crime and savings may be determined jointly; 3) measuring savings in different ways; 4) accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807348
Cover Image
Does crime affect economic decisions? An empirical investigation of savings in a high-crime environment
Mello, João Manoel Pinho de; Zilberman, Eduardo - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2006
data on crime rates and savings per capita in a high-crime environment, we document a striking empirical relationship …: crime induces savings. Our paper is one of the first to successfully relate crime to an economic outcome. This result is …) accounting for the fact that crime and savings may be determined jointly; 3) measuring savings in different ways; 4) accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744705
Cover Image
Dial 911 for murder : the impact of emergency response time on homicides
Stratmann, Thomas; Thomas, David Chandler - 2016
Several theories have been offered to explain the recent declines in violent crime rates in the United States. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549387
Cover Image
The opportunity cost of the upkeep of the criminal justice system in South Africa from 1980 to 2006
Villiers, Pierre de; Nel, Soon - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2009
South African crime rates rose to unacceptably high levels between 1980 and 2006. As a result, vast amounts of funds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005023751
Cover Image
Strategic Interaction and Networks
Bramoulle, Yann; Kranton, Rachel; D'Amours, Martin - 2014
This paper brings a general network analysis to a wide class of economic games. A network, or interaction matrix, tells who directly interacts with whom. A major challenge is determining how network structure shapes overall outcomes. We have a striking result. Equilibrium conditions depend on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194918
Cover Image
Reversing the question : does happiness affect consumption and savings behavior?
Guven, Cahit - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 33 (2012) 4, pp. 701-717
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663260
Cover Image
To spend or to save? : the role of time perspective in the saving behavior of children
Trzcińska, Agata; Sekścińska, Katarzyna; Maison, Dominika - In: Young consumers : insight and ideas for responsible … 23 (2022) 4, pp. 497-511
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454851
Cover Image
The effect of language and temporal focus on cognition, economic behaviour, and well-being
Zheng, Yeqiu - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285185
Cover Image
Reversing the question: Does happiness affect consumption and savings behavior?
Guven, Cahit - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 4, pp. 701-717
satisfaction or happiness) lead to changes in consumption and savings behavior? The paper uses regional sunshine as an instrument …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617626
Cover Image
On the evolution of altruism
Stark, Oded - 1997
We demonstrate how altruism can flourish in a population of nonaltruists. We assume that each individual plays a one-shot prisoner's dilemma game with his or her sibling and that the probability than an individual survives to reproduce is proportional to his or her payoff in this game. We model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291763