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Economic incentives and social preferences : a reference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872219

Economic incentives and social preferences : substitutes or complements?

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2011

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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …

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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

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