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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing

Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015

observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show …

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Who makes a good leader? : social preferences and leading-by-example

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - 2008

We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...

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Peer effects in pro-social behavior : social norms or social preferences?

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012

experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms … explanation for the observed peer effect. -- peer effects ; social influence ; gift-exchange ; experiment ; social preferences …

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Measuring preferences for competition with experimentally-validated survey questions

Fallucchi, Francesco; Nosenzo, Daniele; Reuben, Ernesto - 2019

We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures participants' agreement with the statement "Competition brings the best out of me", predicts individuals' willingness to compete in the laboratory after controlling for their ability,...

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Preferences for truth-telling

Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele; Raymond, Collin - 2016

Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes their material payoff. We combine data from 72 experimental studies in economics, psychology and sociology, and...

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Social proximity and the erosion of norm compliance

Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Gächter, Simon; … - 2020

We study how individuals' compliance with norms of pro-social behavior is influenced by other actors' compliance in a novel, dynamic, and non-strategic experimental setting. We are particularly interested in the role that social proximity among peers plays in eroding or upholding norm...

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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010

) and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the …-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with … experiment ; field experiment ; other-regarding behavior ; social preferences ; truckload ; trucker …

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The impact of social comparisons on reciprocity

Gächter, Simon (contributor); Nosenzo, Daniele (contributor) - 2008

We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental firms composed of one employer and two employees. Exposure to pay comparison information in...

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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2016

We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...

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Self-selection into economics experiments is driven by monetary rewards

Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2013

over-estimation of social preferences in the student population. -- methodology ; selection bias ; laboratory experiment … ; field experiment ; other-regarding behavior ; social preferences ; social approval ; experimenter demand …

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