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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
Gaechter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2017
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
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Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation
Thöni, Christian; Gaechter, Simon - 2014
Social preferences and social influence effects (“peer effects”) are well documented, but little is known about how peers shape social preferences. Settings where social preferences matter are often situations where peer effects are likely too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent...
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Robust Mechanism Design and Social Preferences
Bierbrauer, Felix; Ockenfels, Axel; Pollak, Andreas; … - 2014
We study a classic mechanism design problem: How to organize trade between two privately informed parties. We characterize an optimal mechanism under selfish preferences and present experimental evidence that, under such a mechanism, a non-negligible fraction of individuals deviates from the...
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Peer effects in risk taking
Lahno, Amrei M.; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2012
This paper examines the effect of peers on individual risk taking. In the absence of informational motives, we investigate why social utility concerns may drive peer effects. We test for two main channels: utility from payoff differences and from conforming to the peer. We show experimentally...
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Going Green: Framing Effects in a Dynamic Coordination Game
Gerlagh, Reyer; van der Heijden, Eline - 2015
compare a neutral language treatment with a ‘green framing’ treatment, in which meaningful context is added to the … instructions. We find the green framing to significantly increase the number of profitable transitions, but also to inhibit the … similar even though the green framing results in twice as many transitions. In the context of environmental policy, the …
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Social Framing Effects in Leadership: Preferences or Beliefs?
Cartwright, Edward; Drouvelis, Michalis - 2020
We experimentally study the impact of framing effects in a repeated sequential social dilemma game. Our between … Street game than when it is called the Community game. However, the social framing effect disappears when we control for …
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Your Loss is my Gain: A Recruitment Experiment with Framed Incentives
de Quidt, Jonathan - 2017
find evidence for the predicted distaste for penalty contracts. In four experiments penalty framing actually increased the … job offer acceptance rate relative to bonus framing. I rule out a number of explanations, most notably self …
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Informational Requirements of Nudging
Benkert, Jean-Michel; Netzer, Nick - 2015
A nudge is a non-coercive paternalistic intervention that attempts to improve choices by manipulating the framing of a …
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Dimensions of Donation Preferences: The Structure of Peer and Income Effects
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019
Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018187
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
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