Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for … promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. Our study questions the universality of these claims. We employ a … pro-social behavior. Surprisingly, observation without economic consequences fails to achieve any aggregate pro-social …

We test an information theory of prosocial behavior whereby ego utility and self-signaling crowd out the effect of … discounts. The evidence suggests that price discounts crowd out consumer self-inference of altruism. Alternative motivation … altruistic motives). By combining a field experiment and a structural model, these findings contribute to a growing literature on …

income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked to more cooperative and pro-social behaviors, including the private … provision of global public goods such as climate change mitigation. Consistent with "warm glow" theories of pro-social behavior …

and can improve individual and public welfare. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment that was … experiment, and those who kept participating were less likely to pledge again. This, along with high attrition among nudged … selection effect of nudges, and discuss practical implications of our experiment in terms of the applicability of default …

) easiness to grasp the opportunity to lie, and 2) the amount of time available to decide. In an incentivized online experiment …

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for … promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We connect three streams of literature (nudging, social preferences …

We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We … elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment in which we elicit willingness to pay for conventional and …