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Comparing the Social Preferences of Therapeutic Community Participants to General Population Controls

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2011, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics.
This thesis tests the hypothesis that individuals of the general population are more prosocial than criminal offenders housed in Greene Leaf Therapeutic Community, Xenia, Ohio. The results, however, fail to support the hypothesis and we find that the therapeutic community members are in fact more fair, altruistic, and trustworthy. We use the dictator game, ultimatum game, and trust game in order to elicit their prosocial preferences. Tobit regressions are performed to test for the differences between the proposers in the three games. According to the Tobit regressions, treatment subjects are willing to share more with strangers. Given the nature of the data of the responders, multinomial logit regressions are utilized to study the patterns exhibited by the subjects. According to the logit regressions, members in the self-selected treatment group tend to be more hyper-fair and confused.
BRIAN ROE (Advisor)
KEITH WARREN (Committee Member)
55 p.

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  • Gampa, A. (2011). Comparing the Social Preferences of Therapeutic Community Participants to General Population Controls [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316551143

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gampa, Anup. Comparing the Social Preferences of Therapeutic Community Participants to General Population Controls. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316551143.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gampa, Anup. "Comparing the Social Preferences of Therapeutic Community Participants to General Population Controls." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316551143

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