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Who Said or What Said? Estimating Ideological Bias in Views Among Economists
Javdani, Mohsen - 2019
economists in 19 countries, we examine the effect of ideological bias on views among economists. Participants were asked to … evaluate statements from prominent economists on different topics, while source attribution for each statement was randomized …-/non-mainstream, or removing them, significantly reduces economists' reported agreement with statements. This contradicts the image …
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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis
Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128231
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134522
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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure : Evidence from a Decentralised Economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136493
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Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms
Huck, Steffen - 2010
This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents' desire for, or peer pressure towards, social efficiency. In a simple model of team production we examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136669
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture : The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120848
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Going to School in Purdah : Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012
This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools). We present a theoretical framework where the probability of children's school participation...
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Trust and Cheating
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences
Rustichini, Aldo - 2012
We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their actions, just as much as they adjust their actions to their principles. We first elicit the individuals' principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104971
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Self-Reported Health and Gender : The Role of Social Norms
Caroli, Eve - 2016
We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we...
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