Arbeitspapier
A Little Good is Good Enough: Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing
We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This ‘static moral self-licensing’ would extend the logic of the well studied moral self-licensing over time. Our data document that static moral self-licensing exists. Furthermore, effects spill over to later, unrelated but ethically relevant contexts. Thus, static moral self-licensing and moral self-licensing over time amplify each other. Outsiders, though incentivized for correct estimates, are completely oblivious to effects of moral self-licensing, both, static and over time.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6434
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Expectations; Speculations
- Subject
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moral self-licensing
moral spillovers
cheap excuses
outsider beliefs
moral personality
homo moralis
preference module
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Engel, Jannis
Szech, Nora
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Engel, Jannis
- Szech, Nora
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2017
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