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This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence in conflict. We generate a novel dyadic dataset that contains information on the ethnic identity of the actors involved in 33 ethnic civil conflicts in Africa between 1989 and...
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different methodologies (a behavioral experiment and a vignette experiment in Study 1, as well as a norm elicitation experiment … behavior or its social disapproval. Importantly, these results hold both in the behavioral experiment and in an add-on vignette … behavioral experiment in Study 1, we subsequently examine how norms are perceived across dif-ferent transgressions and how norm …
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influence people's behaviour. This paper applies the concept of nudging to voter registration. The authors are interested not … field experiment, ahead of the 2015 UK General Election, whereby postcards were sent to 7,679 unregistered students living …, were not effective in raising registration. In a separate experiment, the authors also showed that the differences in these …
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a natural field experiment conducted before the 2015 UK General Election, we varied messages on a postcard sent by …
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In a field experiment with 341 participants, we study whether social comparisons, either in isolation or in combination …
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current definitions of sexual harassment and introduces the concept of nudging to support the preventive and corrective … society. This paper is first to conceptualize nudging as a supportive mechanism to traditional management control systems in …
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Social comparison nudges that employ descriptive norms were found to increase charitable giving. This paper finds that individuals who receive a descriptive norm donate significantly more when they have to guess the descriptive norm beforehand. We argue that guessing draws attention to the norm...
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