Seminar “Moral judgment in empirical economics”
There are many topics in quantitative economics. The seminar by
Dr. Maria Polipciuc will focus on “Moral judgment in empirical economics”.
- Topic
- In this seminar, students will read and present a paper on moral judgment
as studied empirically in economics. The papers will be allocated on a
first come, first served basis. The literature covers topics such as: how
moral judgments affect decisions such as buying, career choice, voting; how
responsibility concerns affect how much we value being informed; evidence
on the heterogeneity of moral judgments and possible determinants of these
moral judgments.
- Assignments
- Each student should present at least once (if many students register), but
preferably several times, so as to have sufficient time to understand their
paper in depth and to incorporate (teacher and peer) feedback in their
presentation.
- Foundational reading (not for presentations)
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- Responsibility and blame
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A Falk, T Neuber, N Szech, Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes,
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 87, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 2205–2229.
- Dana, J., Weber, R.A. & Kuang, J.X. Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness.
Economic Theory,33, 67–80 (2007).
- Björn Bartling, Urs Fischbacher, Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and
Responsibility, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 79, Issue 1,
January 2012, Pages 67–87.
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Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, Ingar Haaland, Aakaash Rao,
Christopher Roth, Justifying Dissent, The Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Volume 138, Issue 3, August 2023, Pages 1403–1451.
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- Moral values and consumption
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Weber, Roberto A.; Zhang, Sili (2023) : What Money Can Buy: How Market
Exchange Promotes Values, CESifo Working Paper, No. 10809, Center for
Economic Studies
and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich.
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Schneider, Florian H. (2022) : Signaling Ideology through Consumption,
CESifo Working Paper, No. 9830, Center for Economic Studies and ifo
Institute (CESifo), Munich.
- Institutional and family background
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Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva
(2023). Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides. NBER
Working Paper No. 31688.
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Florian H. Schneider, Fanny Brun and Roberto A. Weber, 2022. “Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work,” revise and
resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics.
An earlier version can be found here.
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Engelmann, Dirk, Jana Friedrichsen, and Dorothea Kübler, 2024. "Fairness
in markets and market experiments: insights from a field‐plus‐lab study and
a failed replication." The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.