“…List (2007, 2008) question whether social preferences matter in markets, due to factors including high stakes, market competition and experience. Our estimates from the administrative labor market data indicate a substantial wage premium for immoral work, suggesting that many workers are willing to forgo financial gains to not work in immoral 7 Our study also relates to research on effort and sorting by mission-oriented types (Besley and Ghatak, 2005;Prendergast, 2007;Delfgaauw and Dur, 2008;Ariely, Bracha and Meier, 2009;Dal Bó, Finan and Rossi, 2013;Fehrler and Kosfeld, 2014;Tonin and Vlassopoulos, 2015;Carpenter and Gong, 2016;Cassar and Meier, 2018;Cassar, 2019;Deseranno, 2019;Dur and van Lent, 2019), though this line of research typically focuses on worker motivation and effort within firms and not on worker morality and labor demand in competitive labor markets.…”