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Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?
Krupka, Erin L.; Weber, Roberto A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on … the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors. We … demonstrate that the norms we elicit, along with a simple model combining concern for norm-compliance with utility for money …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703787
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Can endogenous group formation prevent coordination failure? A theoretical and experimental investigation
Raab, Philippe - 2005
, independently of the initial strategy profile. In the experimental part we test this prediction. Our results show that the accuracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267615
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The effect of religion on cooperation and altruistic punishment: Experimental evidence from public goods experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282506
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Moral hypocrisy, power and social preferences
Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2012
scenarios. Our results show that individuals adjust abstract norms to fit the game, their role and the choices they made. First …, norms that appear abstract and universal take into account the bargaining power of the two sides. The strong side bends the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286903
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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329049
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes; Marklein, Felix - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268624
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Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases
Oechssler, Jörg; Roider, Andreas; Schmitz, Patrick W. - 2008
We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play … a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores … on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005) indeed are correlated with lower incidences of the conjunction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269260
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269847
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269854
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010
We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269929