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Directed Giving : Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia - 2014

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...

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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013

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Low self-control as a source of crime : a meta-study

Engel, Christoph - 2012

theory of crime …

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Social Stigma, Heuristics and Criminal Law

Escresa, Laarni; Palestini, Arsen - 2011

This paper explores under what conditions social stigma exists as an additional sanction in criminal law from a behavioral law and economics perspective. A distinction is made between the court as an institution specialized at discovering and assigning blame and the rest of the society that...

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Using Bounded Rationality to Fight Crime

Pi, Daniel - 2013

punishment, and probability of punishment. Gary Becker’s (1968) seminal essay suggested that optimizing on the benefits of crime … deterrence). However, this model has been attacked on two fronts. First, criminological data on crime rates fails to show a … strong correlation between the predictions of economic models and crime rates in the real world. Second, developments in …

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Gender Views on 75 Crimes : A Survey of Mexican Opinion

McGee, Robert W.; Petrides, Yanira - 2021

serious than the men in the sample. Buying a pirated CD/DVD was considered to be the least serious crime, overall, while …

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Do the Lessons from Micro-Conflict Literature Transfer to High Crime Areas? : Examining Mexico’s War on Drugs

Nasir, Muhammad; Rockmore, Marc; Tan, Chih Ming - 2017

Exposure to political violence is known to affect behavioral parameters. The effects of high levels of criminal violence, however, are largely unknown. We examine the effects of Mexico’s war on drugs on risk aversion, mental health and pro-social behavior. Using a difference-in-differences...

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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments

Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and …

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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments

Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010

donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303003

Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous studies, we find that windfall endowments significantly increase the amount donated. The impact of moving from earned to...

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