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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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-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …
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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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report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and … promote conformism while third parties intervene primarily to promote efficiency. -- experiment ; voluntary contribution …
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This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions … increasing in the actual and expected pro-social behavior of others. This experiment eliminates strategic influences and thus …
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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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Using a series of sender-receiver games, we find that two senders acting together are willing to behave more antisocially towards the receiver than single senders. This result is robust in two contexts: when antisocial messages are dishonest and when they are honest but unfavorable. Our results...
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potential mechanisms through which these letters may affect fine compliance and present results from a natural field experiment …
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tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects …
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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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