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dc.contributor.author | Frey, Bruno S. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Savage, David A. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Torgler, Benno | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-03-03 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-28T08:48:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-07-28T08:48:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26596 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third class. British passengers were more likely to perish than members of other nations. This extreme event represents a rare case of a well-documented life and death situation where social norms were enforced. This paper shows that economic analysis can account for human behavior in such situations. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunich | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCESifo Working Paper |x2551 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D63 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D64 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D71 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D81 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Decision under pressure | en |
dc.subject.keyword | tragic events and disasters | en |
dc.subject.keyword | survival | en |
dc.subject.keyword | quasi-natural experiment | en |
dc.subject.keyword | altruism | en |
dc.subject.stw | Soziale Beziehungen | en |
dc.subject.stw | Entscheidung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Altruismus | en |
dc.subject.stw | Soziale Norm | en |
dc.subject.stw | Konsuminterdependenz | en |
dc.subject.stw | Rationierung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Feldforschung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Schiffsunfall | en |
dc.subject.stw | Großbritannien | en |
dc.title | Surviving the Titanic disaster: economic, natural and social determinants | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 59285616X | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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