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Anti-social norms
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Guerra, José-Alberto; Robinson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is critical to achieving desirable social outcomes. Social norms may underpin such behavior, but they can also undermine it. We study one such norm the "don't be a toad" norm, as it...
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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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The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior : Conceptualization and Application
Dekel, Inbal; Cummings, Rachel; Heffetz, Ori; Ligett, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
estimating the privacy elasticity of public-good contributions in a lab experiment …
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Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World
Acemoglu, Daron - 2006
Most economic analyses presume that there are limited differences in the prior beliefs of individuals, as assumption most often justified by the argument that sufficient common experiences and observations will eliminate disagreements. We investigate this claim using a simple model of Bayesian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466013
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Predicting Social Tipping and Norm Change in Controlled Experiments
Andreoni, James - 2020
. We present evidence from a large-scale lab experiment designed to test the theoretical predictions of a threshold model …
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Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2008
We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
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Unpacking Social Capital
Durante, Ruben; Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct...
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Persuasion in Finance
Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2005
Persuasion is a fundamental part of social activity, yet it is rarely studied by economists. We compare the traditional economic model, in which persuasion is communication of objectively valuable information, with a behavioral model, in which persuasion is an effort to fit the message into the...
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A Model of Behavioral Manipulation
Acemoglu, Daron; Makhdoumi, Ali; Malekian, Azarakhsh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n … behavioral manipulation. We establish that AI benefits consumers when glossiness is short-lived. In contrast, when glossiness is … long-lived, users suffer because of behavioral manipulation. Finally, as the number of products increases, the platform can …
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Ends versus Means : Kantians, Utilitarians, and Moral Decisions
Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...
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