@techreport{Frey2009Surviving,
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.},
address = {M\"{u}nchen},
author = {Bruno S. Frey and David A. Savage and Benno Torgler},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {D63; D64; D71; D81; 330; Decision under pressure; tragic events and disasters; survival; quasi-natural experiment; altruism; Soziale Beziehungen; Entscheidung; Altruismus; Soziale Norm; Konsuminterdependenz; Rationierung; Theorie; Feldforschung; Schiffsunfall; Gro\ss{}britannien},
language = {eng},
number = {2551},
publisher = {CESifo},
title = {Surviving the Titanic disaster: economic, natural and social determinants},
type = {CESifo working paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26596},
year = {2009}
}
