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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642878
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Did we Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2010
Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671736
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836682
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Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement
Fuster, Andreas; Meier, Stephan - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 1, pp. 57-70
Monetary incentives, such as subsidies or bonuses, are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public … goods in society and firms. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of private contribution incentives in the … contributions by itself. We test whether and how (centrally provided) private incentives interact with (decentralized) punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009191641
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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? The case of self-selected student samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2011
Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274687
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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? The case of self-selected student samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2010
Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274947
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License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs
Keum, Daniel; Meier, Stephan - 2020
Expanding unemployment insurance (UI) not only reduces the burden for the unemployed but also the moral cost of layoffs to firms and their managers. Using staggered expansions of UI across US states, we show that expanding UI leads to larger layoffs in firms experiencing negative economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270175
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Meier, Stephan; Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect … prosocially. Moreover, we show that extrinsic incentives interact with image motivation and are therefore less effective in public … than in private. Together, these results imply that image motivation is crowded out by monetary incentives; which in turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763864
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License to fire? : unemployment insurance and the moral cost of layoffs
Keum, Daniel; Meier, Stephan - 2020
Expanding unemployment insurance (UI) not only reduces the burden for the unemployed but also the moral cost of layoffs to firms and their managers. Using staggered expansions of UI across US states, we show that expanding UI leads to larger layoffs in firms experiencing negative economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253574
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Findley, Michael; Jensen, Nathan M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105062