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Can We Infer Social Preferences from the Lab? Evidence from the Trust Game

Baran, Nicole M. - 2010

We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation. By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a...

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What Makes a Price Fair? An Experimental Analysis of Transaction Experience and Endogenous Fairness Views

Herz, Holger - 2016

People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide clean evidence that previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of...

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Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion : Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

Griffin, John David - 2011

The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game, where...

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Moral Costs and Rational Choice : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Cox, James C. - 2016

The literature exploring other regarding behavior sheds important light on interesting social phenomena, yet less attention has been given to how the received results speak to foundational assumptions within economics. Our study synthesizes the empirical evidence, showing that recent work...

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Do Beliefs Justify Actions or Do Actions Justify Beliefs? An Experiment on Stated Beliefs, Revealed Beliefs, and Social-Image Manipulation

Andreoni, James - 2014

. In our experiment, subjects participate in a trust game, after which they have an opportunity to state their beliefs …

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From Extreme to Mainstream : How Social Norms Unravel

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017

using two experiments. In the main experiment, we identify the causal effect of Donald Trump's rise in political popularity … on individuals' willingness to publicly express xenophobic views. Participants in the experiment are offered a bonus … or through the “natural experiment” of his victory) eliminate the wedge between private and public behavior. A second …

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Misperceived Social Norms : Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018

Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives' labor supply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP). We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in Riyadh and from a national...

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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes : Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

Dhar, Diva - 2018

Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries. This paper evaluates a school-based intervention in India that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender equality for two and a half years with the goal of...

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Information and Social Norms : Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women

Aloud, Monira Essa; Al-Rashood, Sara; Ganguli, Ina; … - 2021

force participation (FLFP) in conservative societies? To answer this question, we conducted a field experiment embedded in a …

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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas

Xiao, Erte; Kunreuther, Howard - 2021

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner's dilemma environment where each person can decide whether or...

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