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We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms …
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field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …
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third type appeals to altruism. This is the first study to evaluate if these messages can produce spillovers across taxes … dollar spent in the long run. The message appealing to altruism produces a transitory negative effect and no spillovers, and …
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-person gift-exchange experiment we find causal evidence for peer effects in voluntary cooperation: agents' efforts are positively …
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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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for participants claiming warm glow as their primary motivation, its shape is increasing and concave. Nevertheless …
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). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
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Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
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A key solution for public good provision is the voluntary formation of institutions that commit players to cooperate. Such institutions generate inequality if some players decide not to participate but cannot be excluded from cooperation benefits. Prior research with small groups emphasizes the...
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