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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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elements in shaping gender differences in preferences. In fact, in matrilineal societies (Gong et al.; 2014; Gneezy et al …
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We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other … decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions, free-riding and efficiency concerns for girls. Gender differences are … already established at approximately age 10. They cannot be explained by gender-specific increases in other …
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Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this result extends to more natural social interactions involving reciprocal behavior. We provide the...
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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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whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play …
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We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms … present first evidence that previously found gender effects in tax morale are not driven by differences in risk preferences. …
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altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent … predictions of a model where the distribution of latent altruism has smaller variance among women than men. First, the highest …
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This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …
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