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1 results foundAuthor: Shoji, Masahiro Title: Guilt Aversion and Peer Effects in Crime: Experimental and Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh Summary: The peer effects are considered to be a cause of the crime disparity across cities over time, but little is known how the effects occur. I conducted an artefactual field experiment in rural Bangladesh to uncover the mechanism of peer effects through the intrinsic motivation. I particularly disentangle two potential channels predicted by the guilt aversion preference; through the change in the guilt sensitivity and the second order beliefs. The validity of guilt aversion is also tested by using experiment and survey data. A novel contribution of this experiment is that it develops an approach to elicit the guilt sensitivity. I find that the behavioral patterns of experimental crime are consistent with the guilt aversion but not with the pure altruism or trustworthiness. The peer effects occur through the changes in the beliefs; when crime is common, individuals anticipate that the others expect higher risk of crime victimization, which in turn declines the guilt from committing crime. By using the survey data collected from the participant households, I show the validity of the elicited guilt sensitivity; individuals are less likely to suffer from property crime in the villages where the neighborhood have higher guilt sensitivity. Details: Tokyo: Faculty of Economics, Seijo University, 2012. 38p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 18, 2017 at: http://www3.grips.ac.jp/~econseminar/Guilt%20Aversion.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Bangladesh URL: http://www3.grips.ac.jp/~econseminar/Guilt%20Aversion.pdf Shelf Number: 147290 Keywords: Broken Windows TheoryCrime VictimizationGuilt AversionPeer Effects |