This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...

Based on the well-known observation that social norms can guide individual behavior, this paper empirically examines the causal effect of related information interventions on revealed climate protection activities, measured through incentivized donations. In our field-experi-mental setting, we...

One of the main reasons governments of developing countries, including Vietnam, face many difficulties in tax collection is taxpayers' non-compliance with taxes. Therefore, the question for the governments of these countries is how to encourage taxpayers to comply voluntarily without having to...

What determines whether someone complies with a social norm? The social identity approach offers a mechanism for norm compliance: a person who feels similar to a group identifies more with that group and, in turn, complies with the group's norms. We used an economics experiment to test this...

People behave differently when they are being observed due to reputational concerns. Previous studies have found that pro-social behaviour was encouraged when experimental subjects were being observed or believed they were being observed. The present study extends previous research by adding a...

How important are social norms, information gaps and family constraints in explaining the low rates of female labor force participation (FLFP) in conservative societies? To answer this question, we conducted a field experiment embedded in a survey of female university students at a large public...

Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field experiments with high-quality longitudinal administrative...

It is well documented in the literature that women frequently react less favorably to competition than men. In this paper, we test for the effects of social norms on willingness to compete (WTC). Subjects compete in two-person teams. In the treatment, one team member is randomly assigned the...

The primary purpose of this study was to examine foreign language and religiosity effects on moral decision making in the context of a realistic set of scenarios about COVID 19 pandemic. In this study, we used CNI model in which four variants of a single dilemma are used in order manipulate...