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作者：Avery, Rosemary; Kenkel, Donald; Lillard, Dean R.; Mathios, Alan
作者单位：Cornell University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We study the impact of smoking cessation product advertising. To measure potential exposure, we link survey data on magazine-reading habits and smoking behavior with an archive of print advertisements. We find that smokers who are exposed to more advertising are more likely to attempt to quit and to successfully quit. While some increased
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作者：List, John A.
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：The dictator game represents a workhorse within experimental economics, frequently used to test theory and to provide insights into the prevalence of social preferences. This study explores more closely the dictator game and the literature's preferred interpretation of its meaning by collecting data from nearly 200 dictators across treatments that varied the action set and the origin of endowment. The action set variation includes choices in which the dictator can take money from the other pla...
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作者：Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：How should moral sanctions and moral rewards-the moral sentiments involving feelings of guilt and of virtue-be employed to govern individuals' behavior if the objective is to maximize social welfare? In the model that we examine, guilt is a disincentive to act and virtue is an incentive because we assume that they are negative and positive sources of utility. We also suppose that guilt and virtue are costly to inculcate and are subject to certain constraints on their use. We show that the mora...
