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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015

There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...

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Under risk, over time, regarding other people : language and rationality within three dimensions

Jullien, Dorian - 2018

This paper conducts a systematic comparison of behavioral economics’s challenges to the standard accounts of economic behaviors within three dimensions: under risk, over time and regarding other people. A new perspective on two underlying methodological issues, i.e., interdisciplinarity and...

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Gender effects in dictator game giving : women favour female recipients

Baltrusch, Maximilian; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This version: April 22, 2018

substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary …

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At the mercy of the prisoner next door : using an experimental measure of selfishness as a criminological tool

Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - 2010

improve their marks over time. This suggests that this correctional intervention also reduces selfishness. -- Crime ; Prison … that reduce the degree of selfishness of their inmates? Using a tried and tested tool from experimental economics, we cast … calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average …

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Why are economists so different? : nature, nurture and gender effects in a simple trust game ; conference paper

Haucap, Justus; Müller, Andrea - 2014

We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment in class-room. While economists are both significantly less trusting and less trustworthy than law students, this difference is largely due to heterogeneity between female law and economics students....

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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...

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Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

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Bad boys: How criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282468

Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015 - Revised version, May 2015

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519191

The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013

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