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collective of insured individuals or the taxpayers) bearing the costs. Professional norms are viewed as restraining physicians … of professional norms on prospective physicians' trade-offs between her own profits, the patients' benefits, and the … payers' expenses for medical care. We find that professional norms derived from the Hippocratic tradition shift weight to the …
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During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...
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effective means of containing the virus until herd immunity is reached. Social norms have been shown to be an important … isolation recollections, we study whether social distancing has in turn affected norms of prosociality and norm compliance. The … news since subjects seem still to care for norms and become more prosocial once again after we draw their attention to the …
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We propose a simple utility framework and design a novel two-part experiment to study the relevance of personal norms … across various economic games and settings. We show that personal norms — together with social norms and monetary payoff … — are highly predictive of individuals’ behavior. Moreover, they are: i) distinct from social norms across a series of …
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suggest that social norms can change rapidly as a result of election outcomes. We explore this conjecture using a controlled …
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While social norms have received great attention within economics, little is known about the role of personal norms. We … propose a simple utility framework - which assumes that people care about monetary payoff, social norms, and personal norms … - and design a novel two-part experiment to investigate the predictive value of personal norms across four economic games …
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, and social norms) to investigate the universality of these claims. By employing a series of high-powered laboratory and … and that increasing the focus on social norms can counteract the backfiring effects of such behavioral interventions. Our …
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Do contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior? We address this question in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and economically important impact on...
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