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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023
report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further … underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure …, only fairness views play a significant mediating role between status and allocation differences, suggesting this is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477403
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Self-persuasion : evidence from field experiments at international debating competitions
Schwardmann, Peter; Tripodi, Egon; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2021
Laboratory evidence shows that when people have to argue for a given position, they persuade themselves about the position’s factual and moral superiority. Such self-persuasion limits the potential of communication to resolve conflict and reduce polarization. We test for this phenomenon in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191465
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When nudges fail to scale : field experimental evidence from goal setting on mobile phones
Löschel, Andreas; Rodemeier, Matthias; Werthschulte, … - 2020
Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology ("nudges") have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267142
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Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback : a field experiment in Ethiopia
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bohne, Albrecht; Frölich, Markus - 2019
In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as health, education, and agricultural investments. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126111
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2019
Taxpayer nudges - behavioral interventions that aim to increase tax compliance without changing the underlying economic incentives of taxpayers - are used increasingly by governments because of their potential cost-effectiveness in raising tax revenue. We collect about a thousand treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129505
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2024 - This version: July, 2024
Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesize the growing literature that evaluates nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that simple reminders increase the probability of compliance by 2.7 percentage points relative to the baseline where about...
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The endowment effect in the general population
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea - 2022
We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...
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The limits of social recognition : experimental evidence from blood donors
Götte, Lorenz; Tripodi, Egon - 2023
Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments at Italy's main blood donors association, testing social recognition in social media and peer groups. We experimentally disentangle visibility concerns and peer comparisons, and study how exposure to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476823
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Can social comparisons and moral appeals increase public transport ridership and decrease car use?
Gessner, Johannes; Habla, Wolfgang; Wagner, Ulrich J. - 2023
In a field experiment with 341 participants, we study whether social comparisons, either in isolation or in combination with a climate-related moral appeal, can change the use of public and car-related transportation. We do so in the context of a mobility budget offered to employees of a large...
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Fairness in markets and market experiments
Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018
and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates … the experiment. These results support the notion that fairness preferences as assessed in laboratory experiments capture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895978