TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Friehe, Tim
AU  - Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah
        TI  - Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
        PY  - 2014/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8109
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8109
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - criminal behavior
KW  - risk preferences
KW  - social preferences
KW  - ego-depletion
KW  - dual-system models
KW  - experiment
KW  - endogeneity of economic preferences
        ER  -