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Nudging Enforcers : How Norm Perceptions and Motives for Lying Shape Sanctions

Dimant, Eugen; Gesche, Tobias - 2021

The enforcement of social norms is the fabric of a functioning society. Through the lens of multiple studies using different methodologies (a behavioral experiment and a vignette experiment in Study 1, as well as a norm elicitation experiment in Study 2), we examine how motives for lying and...

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When Parents Decide : Gender Differences in Competitiveness

Tungodden, Jonas; Willén, Alexander - 2022

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...

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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation and Trust

Columbus, Simon; Kasper, Matthias; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2023

This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...

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A Social Norm Nudge to Save More : A Field Experiment at a Retail Bank

Dur, Robert A. J.; Fleming, Dimitry; Garderen, Marten van; … - 2021

A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This paper examines whether a social norm nudge can induce such households to save more. We ran a large-scale field experiment at a retail bank in the Netherlands. We find that...

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Nudging When the Descriptive Norm is Low : Evidence from a Carbon Offsetting Field Experiment

Carattini, Stefano - 2020

Nudges and behavioral interventions have become a popular tool to stimulate prosocial behavior. Little is known, however, on how to design effective social interventions in contexts in which the descriptive norm is low, i.e. when a desirable behavior is only practiced by a minority within the...

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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 2018

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others’ interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...

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A Real Effort vs. Standard Public Goods Experiment : Overall More All-or-Nothing, Lower Average Contributions and Men Become More Selfish in the Effort-Loss Frame

Schütze, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2023

Many environment related public goods require investment of time or effort rather than simply money. Yet, most experimental studies on public good games focus on a distribution of money. In the present paper, we report results from an experiment (N=181) comparing an effort based public goods...

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Time Will Tell : Recovering Preferences When Choices are Noisy

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos - 2019

The ability to uncover preferences from choices is fundamental for both positive economics and welfare analysis. Overwhelming evidence shows that choice is stochastic, which has given rise to random utility models as the dominant paradigm in applied microeconomics. However, as is well known, it...

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Do Market Failures Create a 'Durability Gap' in the Circular Economy?

Fullerton, Don; He, Shan - 2021

Circular Economy literature recommends longer lasting products, in order to reduce pollution from extraction, production, and disposal. Our economic analysis finds conditions where consumers choose lives that are too short – a “durability gap”. Then policies targeting durability raise...

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Resource Dependence, Recycling, and Trade

Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2023

Recycling waste from used goods can substitute for scarce raw materials and reduce resource dependence. This paper … presents a model of waste collection, recycling and final goods production using raw and recycled materials. Non-recycled waste … recycling firms to compensate for the savings in disposal costs. We study trade between resource poor economies exporting final …

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