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We refine the understanding of individual preferences across social lotteries, whereby the payoffs of a pair of subjects are exposed to random shocks. We find that aggregate behavior is ex-post and ex-ante inequality averse, but also that there is a wide variety of individual preferences and...
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laboratory experiment, we find that more than 75% of subjects play strategies that belong to the predicted equilibrium set …
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experiment with more than 2,800 households. We vary whether solicitors are paid or not and the information about this …
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We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and expressive motives. Our model implies that if pocketbook benefits are relevant, voters either perceive their impact on the outcome to be non-negligible, or expressive motivations...
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and can improve individual and public welfare. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment that was … experiment, and those who kept participating were less likely to pledge again. This, along with high attrition among nudged … selection effect of nudges, and discuss practical implications of our experiment in terms of the applicability of default …
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