This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro …-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …

sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment do provide behavioural evidence which is rare in such a controlled … cultural background matter. -- Decision under pressure ; altruism ; social norms ; interdependent preferences ; excess of …

; tragic events and disasters ; survival ; quasi-natural experiment ; altruism …

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 …

We conduct field experiments with retail investors recruited from a social trading platform. In our main experiment, we … experiment, we collect administrative data on portfolio allocations. Treated respondents increase the index fund shares of their …

asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …

Collective consumption decisions taken by the members of a household may prove inefficient. The impact on market … performance depends on whether household inefficiencies are caused by inefficient net trades with the market or by inefficient …

to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In … particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades. It also …