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Author-Name: Nigus, Halefom
Author-Name: Mohnen, Pierre
Author-workplace-name: RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research, QE Econometrics
Author-Name: Nillesen, Eleonora
Author-workplace-name: RS: GSBE UM-BIC, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, RS: GSBE MGSoG
Author-Name: Di Falco, S.
Title: Does moral transgression promote anti-social behavior?
Abstract: Using two lab-in-the-field experiments, we study whether initial transgression promote subsequent anti-social behavior. In the first stage subjects participated in an experimental market game. In the second stage, subjects were given an opportunity to participate in antisocial experiment. We find that subjects who impose a negative externality on uninvolved third parties in the market game are also more likely to burn their partner's income in the second experiment. This finding is consistent with a conscience-numbing effect but could possibly also be explained by participants' preferences for consistency.
Classification-JEL: c93,d03,d62,d63,m14
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20230814
Number: 2023-027
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/146083042/wp2023-027.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 627159
Handle: Repec:unm:unumer:2023027
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