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Butler, Jeffrey - 2012

When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...

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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service

Hanna, Rema - 2013

In this paper, we demonstrate that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, we also show that cheating on this task is predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying...

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From Extreme to Mainstream : How Social Norms Unravel

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017

using two experiments. In the main experiment, we identify the causal effect of Donald Trump's rise in political popularity … on individuals' willingness to publicly express xenophobic views. Participants in the experiment are offered a bonus … or through the “natural experiment” of his victory) eliminate the wedge between private and public behavior. A second …

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Misperceived Social Norms : Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018

Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives' labor supply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP). We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in Riyadh and from a national...

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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes : Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

Dhar, Diva - 2018

Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries. This paper evaluates a school-based intervention in India that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender equality for two and a half years with the goal of...

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Information and Social Norms : Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women

Aloud, Monira Essa; Al-Rashood, Sara; Ganguli, Ina; … - 2021

force participation (FLFP) in conservative societies? To answer this question, we conducted a field experiment embedded in a …

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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas

Xiao, Erte; Kunreuther, Howard - 2021

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner's dilemma environment where each person can decide whether or...

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Market Culture : How Norms Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance

Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E. - 2022

Many markets have organizations that influence or try to establish norms concerning when offers can be made, accepted and rejected. Examining a dozen previously studied markets suggests that markets in which transactions are made far in advance are markets in which it is acceptable for firms to...

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You've Earned it : Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences

Jakiela, Pamela - 2010

We combine data from a field experiment and a laboratory experiment to measure the causal impact of human capital on … that randomized field experiments can be successfully combined with laboratory experiment data to measure causal impacts on …

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Can We Infer Social Preferences from the Lab? Evidence from the Trust Game

Baran, Nicole M. - 2010

We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation. By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a...

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