Moral consequences of becoming unemployedTools Barr, Abigail, Miller, Luis and Ubeda, Paloma (2016) Moral consequences of becoming unemployed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (17). pp. 4676-4681. ISSN 0027-8424 Full text not available from this repository.AbstractWe test the conjecture that becoming unemployed erodes the extent to which a person acknowledges earned entitlement. We use behavioral experiments to generate incentive compatible measures of individuals’ tendencies to acknowledge earned entitlement and incorporate these experiments in a two-stage study. In the first stage, participants’ acknowledgement of earned entitlement was measured by engaging them in the behavioral experiments and their individual employment status and other relevant socio-economic characteristics were recorded. In the second stage, a year later, the process was repeated using the same instruments. The combination of the experimentally generated data and the longitudinal design allows us to investigate our conjecture using a difference-in-difference approach, while ruling out the pure self-interest confound. We report evidence consistent with a large, negative effect of becoming unemployed on the acknowledgement of earned entitlement.
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