%0 Report
        %A Friehe, Tim
%A Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah
        %T Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8109
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8109
        %X In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and social preferences. To exogenously vary the level of self-control, we use a well-established experimental manipulation. We find that low self-control causes less risk-averse behavior. The effect of self-control on social preferences is not significant. In sum, our findings support the proposition that low self-control is a facilitator of crime. While our study is motivated by the literature on the determinants of criminal behavior, it has important implications for dual-system models and documents endogeneity of economic preferences.
        %K criminal behavior
%K risk preferences
%K social preferences
%K ego-depletion
%K dual-system models
%K experiment
%K endogeneity of economic preferences