%0 Report
        %A Cervellati, Matteo
%A Vanin, Paolo
        %T "Thou Shalt Not Covet ...": Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values
        %D 2013
        %8 2013 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7334
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7334
        %X This paper proposes a theory of the relationship between prohibitions and temptation. In presence of self-control problems, moral values may increase individual material welfare (and utility) by serving as a self-commitment device. The model investigates the relationship between morality and temptation, the individual gains from morality, the interaction between external sanctions and moral self-punishment and the spread and strength of individually optimal moral values. The empirical analysis, based on survey data for a large set of countries, documents a hump-shaped pattern of morality in social class, which supports the theoretical predictions of the model.
        %K crime
%K moral values
%K prohibitions
%K temptation
%K self-control