TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Falk, Armin
        TI  - Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence
        PY  - 2017/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10921
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10921
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - morality
KW  - violence
KW  - status
KW  - inequality
KW  - laboratory experiments
        ER  -