This study uses a cross-country panel to examine the determinants of corruption, paying particular attention to political institutions that increase accountability. Even though the theoretical literature has stressed the importance of political institutions in determining corruption, the empirical literature is relatively scarce. Our results confirm the role of political institutions in determi...

The current study tested the boundary conditions of ethical decision-making by increasing cognitive load. This manipulation is believed to hinder deliberation, and, as we argue, reduces the cognitive capacity needed for a self-serving bias to occur. As telling a lie is believed to be more cognitively taxing than telling the truth, we hypothesized that participants would be more honest under hig...

In attempting to quantify the global burden of disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) seeks to define summary measures of the health of the world’s population. This choice is not inevitable, because disease diminishes well-being and people’s capacities to achieve what they value; and one might measure the global burden of disease by measuring the impact of disease in terms of wider conseq...