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MAZZINO MONTINARI, OVVERO DELLA FILOLOGIA E DELL’IMPEGNO
No full textIntroduzione al volume su Mazzino Montinar
Dishonesty in Behavioral Economics
No full textDishonesty in Behavioral Economics provides a rigorous and comprehensive overview of dishonesty, presenting state-of-the-art research that adopts a behavioral economics perspective. Throughout the volume, contributors emphasize the effects of psychological, social and cognitive factors on the decision-making process. In contrast to related titles, this book emphasizes the importance of empirical research methodologies. The book's contributors demonstrate how various methods applied to similar research questions can lead to different results. This characteristic is important because it is difficult to obtain reliable measures of dishonesty
Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting
No full textThis paper examines whether combining non-monetary and monetary incentives increases municipal solid waste sorting. We empirically investigate this issue, exploiting the exogenous variation in waste management policies experienced during the years 1999–2008 by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). Using a panel regression analysis, we estimate that pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) incentive schemes increase by 17% the sorted-to-total waste ratio and that their effect reinforces that of a door-to-door (DtD) collection system, which is equal to 15.7%. Moreover, the panel structure of our dataset allows us to find learning and spatial effects associated to both PAYT and DtD
It Wasn't Me! Visibility and Free Riding in Waste Disposal
No full textWe study the effect of visibility of individual action on free riding using field data on household waste sorting. In our sample households pay an annual fee proportional to the number of emptyings of their bin for unsorted waste. We exploit the variation in the bin sharing policy to estimate the production of unsorted waste when bins are shared or not. We find that unsorted waste production is lower when two households share the same bin compared to households not sharing the bin. This result does not hold when more than two households share the same bin, possibly due to lack of visibility of the individual action. We interpret this evidence as suggesting that peer monitoring can promote virtuous behavior when monetary incentives cannot be used to solve social dilemmas
It's time to cheat!
No full textWe study the correlation between time preferences and cheating. In our experiment, cheating increases the earnings of those who commit it and only entails a moral cost. We are the first to measure both (a proxy for) the propensity to cheat and time preferences at the individual level, determining whether cheaters are more likely to be more present-biased or to have a higher discount factor. We observe widespread cheating, which prevails among subjects with present bias and overconfidence
Cheating in University Exams: The Relevance of Social Factors
No full textWe implemented an online anonymous survey targeted to current and former students, where the interviewed indicate whether and to what extent they cheated during written university exams. We find that 61% of respondents have cheated once or more. Cheaters are more likely to report that their classmates and friends cheated, and that in general people can be trusted. Two different cheating styles emerge: ‘social cheaters’, who self-report that they have violated the rules interacting with others; ‘individualistic’ cheaters, who self-report that they have used prohibited materials. Only social cheaters exhibit higher levels of trust compared to individualistic cheaters
What does a young cheater look like? An innovative approach
No full textPersonality traits matter. We could summarize with these simple words a vast literature in social sciences dedicated to explaining the behavior of individuals, acting alone or within societies. Examples abound in several economic contexts spanning from the intention to become a social entrepreneur (Nga and Shamuganathan, 2010), to management of household finances (Brown and Taylor, 2014), to labor market outcomes (Fletcher, 2013). Similarly vast is the literature on cheating, justified by the profound economic and social consequences
of such behavior. In this chapter, we link these two growing strands of literature by studying the relation between experimental measures of cheating behavior among adolescents and personality measures obtained through a questionnaire
Unusual location of a common dermatosis
No full textA case of bilateral areolar and periareolar pityriasis versicolor is described. Neither clinical features nor dermoscopy observation were diagnostic for this atypical picture. In spite of a single previous report which described specific dermoscopic features of pityriasis versicolor, it may be hypothesized that polymorphic dermoscopic patterns may be observed in this superficial fungal disease
It's Time to Cheat!
No full textWe study the correlation between time preferences and cheating. In our experiment, cheating increases the earnings of those who commit it and only entails a moral cost. We are the first to measure both (a proxy for) the propensity to cheat and time preferences at the individual level, determining whether cheaters are more likely to be more present-biased or to have a higher discount factor. We observe widespread cheating, which prevails among subjects with present bias and overconfidence
The Italian North-South Divide in Perceived Dishonesty: A Matter of Trust?
No full textWe present novel data from a survey on the perception of dishonesty in Italy. We collected data at a mass-gathering music festival in Southern Italy, whose audience includes a relevant fraction of subjects residing in Northern Italy. The survey consists of questions on perceived dishonesty measured on an institutional, social, and everyday dimension. Using structural equation models, we estimate whether regional differences in the perception of dishonesty persist even when controlling for generalized trust and socio-demographic characteristics. From a sample of nearly 1,000 individuals, we find that respondents residing in the North or abroad perceive a lower level of dishonesty in its institutional and everyday dimension than Southern respondents. Perceived dishonesty also correlates negatively with trust. Finally, we find suggestive evidence of an indirect channel going from the area of residence to perceived dishonesty through generalized trust as a mediator
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