Kimbrough, Erik; Vostroknutov, Alexander - Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University - 2014
We explore the idea that prosocial behavior in experimental games is driven by social norms imported into the … laboratory. Under this view, differences in behavior across subjects is driven by heterogeneity in sensitivity to social norms … norm-dependent preferences under reasonable assumptions about the nature of social norms. Then we directly elicit norms in …