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Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2010

giver? We present a theoretical framework that distinguishes two types of motivation: individuals like to give, e.g., due to … altruism or warm glow, and individuals would rather not give but dislike saying no, e.g., due to social pressure. We design a … important determinant of door-to-door giving. Combining data from this and a complementary field experiment, we structurally …

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Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Beliefs and Undersaving

Han, Bing - 2019

We model visibility bias in the social transmission of consumption behavior. When consumption is more salient than non-consumption, people perceive that others are consuming heavily, and infer that future prospects are favorable. This increases aggregate consumption in a positive feedback loop....

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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards …

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Misperceived Social Norms : Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018

Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives' labor supply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP). We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in Riyadh and from a national...

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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes : Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

Dhar, Diva - 2018

Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries. This paper evaluates a school-based intervention in India that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender equality for two and a half years with the goal of...

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Can We Infer Social Preferences from the Lab? Evidence from the Trust Game

Baran, Nicole M. - 2010

We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation. By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a...

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You've Earned it : Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences

Jakiela, Pamela - 2010

We combine data from a field experiment and a laboratory experiment to measure the causal impact of human capital on … that randomized field experiments can be successfully combined with laboratory experiment data to measure causal impacts on …

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Information and Social Norms : Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women

Aloud, Monira; Al-Rashood, Sara; Ganguli, Ina; Zafar, Basit - 2021

force participation (FLFP) in conservative societies? To answer this question, we conducted a field experiment embedded in a …

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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas

Xiao, Erte; Kunreuther, Howard - 2021

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner's dilemma environment where each person can decide whether or...

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Trust and Cheating

Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012

When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...

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