Moral Transgressions by Groups: What Drives Individual Voting Behavior?
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- Feess, Eberhard & Kerzenmacher, Florian & Muehlheusser, Gerd, 2020. "Moral Transgressions by Groups: What Drives Individual Voting Behavior?," IZA Discussion Papers 13383, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
group decisions; unethical behaviour; experiment; voting; diffusion of responsibility; guilt sharing; donations;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2020-08-31 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2020-08-31 (Experimental Economics)
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