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related testable predictions, and design an experiment based on a variant of the dictator game that tests for empirical …
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trembling-hand perfect equilibrium under selfish preferences even towards the end of our experiment. The likely reasons for our …
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Inadequate hygiene during menstruation can have severe consequences, such as adverse health effects, lower educational attainment and higher work absenteeism. Cultural taboos and social norms surrounding menstruation may contribute to misinformation about menstrual hygiene and may also interfere...
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Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to suboptimal social outcomes. We examine whether this effect is due to a lack of perceived legitimacy of rule enforcement, which would enable agents to justify selfish behavior. We...
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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paper examines whether a social norm nudge can induce such households to save more. We ran a large-scale field experiment at … precisely estimated. A complementary small-scale survey experiment suggests that people did notice the social norm nudge and …
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different methodologies (a behavioral experiment and a vignette experiment in Study 1, as well as a norm elicitation experiment … lying behavior or its social disapproval. Importantly, these results hold both in the behavioral experiment and in an add … of the behavioral experiment in Study 1, we subsequently examine how norms are perceived across different transgressions …
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the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …
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The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including their possible impact on moral values, is necessary...
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field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants …
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