Whistle the Racist Dogs: Political Campaigns and Police Stops

Grosjean, Pauline; Masera, Federico; Yousaf, Hasin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3662027

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“…More broadly, our paper also relates to previous work on the impact of public figures in the setting of social norms (Acemoglu and Jackson, 2015;Hermalin, 1998), political preferences (Dippel andHeblich, 2021), unethical conduct (d'Adda, Darai, Pavanini, andWeber, 2017;Garz and Pagels, 2018;Cagé, Dagorret, Grosjean, and Jha, 2020;Grosjean, Masera, and Yousaf, 2020), and short-run beliefs and behavior (Bassi and Rasul, 2017;Stroebel and van Benthem, 2012). Our results suggest that leaders might affect citizens propensity to behave dishonestly by changing their self-imposed moral costs of stealing.…”

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confidence: 68%

Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft

Gulino,

Masera

2023

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption scandals affect the propensity of supermarket customers to steal while using a self-service checkout system. Crucially, this system allows shoppers to engage in dishonest behavior by underreporting the value of their shopping cart. Exploiting data from random audits on shoppers, we show that the probability of stealing increases by 16 percent after a local corruption scandal breaks. This effect is not driven by any change in material incentives. Suggestive evidence shows that it is driven by a reduction in the self-imposed cost of stealing. (JEL D12, D73, D91, K42, L81, Z13)

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft

Gulino,

Masera

2023

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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“…Gennaioli et al, 2019;Coates, 2017). While far-right parties have gained significant electoral success in Europe in recent years, there is evidence that they do not merely reflect, but also aggravate, radicalization, xenophobia and social conflict (see Bursztyn et al, 2019;Fletcher et al, 2020;Grosjean et al, 2020;Müller and Schwarz, 2018;Romarri, 2020). By measuring far-right political propaganda and hate speech during the electoral campaign in Italy, we show that antiimmigration propaganda significantly exacerbates the public opinion backlash.…”

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confidence: 82%