@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10921,
            	author={Falk, Armin},
            	title={Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence},
            	year={2017},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={10921},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10921},
	abstract={This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual attractiveness. In three between-subject conditions, the assigned other subject is either of higher, lower or equal status. The incidence of electric shocks is substantially higher among subjects matched with higher- and lower-status others, relative to subjects matched with equal-status others. This causal evidence on the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities.},
	keywords={morality;violence;status;inequality;laboratory experiments},
            }