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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

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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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010

and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the …-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with …-selected adults: the students appear considerably less pro-social. -- methodology ; selection bias ; laboratory experiment ; field …

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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010

) and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the …-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with … experiment ; field experiment ; other-regarding behavior ; social preferences ; truckload ; trucker …

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Socially optimal mistakes? : debiasing COVID-19 mortality risk perceptions and prosocial behavior

Abel, Martin; Byker, Tanya; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2020

The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people overestimate their own risk and that of young people, while...

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Norm enforcement : anger, indignation or reciprocity?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2005

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 …