TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Friehe, Tim
AU  - Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah
        TI  - The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
        PY  - 2014/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7894
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7894
        AB  - We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from criminology. We find that economic preferences, personality traits, and self-control complement each other in predicting criminal behavior. The most significant predictors stem from all three disciplines: risk aversion, conscientiousness, and high self-control make criminal behavior less likely. Our results illustrate that integrating concepts from various disciplines enhances our understanding of individual behavior.
        KW  - self-control
KW  - personality traits
KW  - time preferences
KW  - risk preferences
KW  - crime
KW  - experiment
        ER  -