Social Preferences and Collusion: A Laboratory Experiment

When people anticipate financial support, they may reduce preventive effort. We conjecture that the source of financial support can mitigate this moral hazard effect due to social preferences. We compare effort choices when another individual voluntarily provides financial support against effort choices under purely monetary incentives. When financial support is provided voluntarily by another individual, we expect recipients to exert more effort to avoid bad outcomes (level effect) and to reduce effort provision to a lesser degree as financial support becomes more generous (sensitivity effect). We conducted an incentivized laboratory experiment and find some evidence for the level effect and strong evidence for the sensitivity effect. This leads to significant gains in material efficiency with expected wealth being 5.5% higher and 37.3% less volatile.

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Group Identity and Social Preferences

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.99.1.431 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 99 (1) ◽

pp. 431-457 ◽

Cited By ~ 637

Author(s):

Yan Chen ◽

Sherry Xin Li

Keyword(s):

Social Welfare ◽

Laboratory Experiment ◽

Group Identity ◽

Social Preferences ◽

Percent Increase ◽

Percent Decrease

We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member, they show a 47 percent increase in charity concerns and a 93 percent decrease in envy. Likewise, participants are 19 percent more likely to reward an ingroup match for good behavior, but 13 percent less likely to punish an ingroup match for misbehavior. Furthermore, participants are significantly more likely to choose social-welfare-maximizing actions when matched with an ingroup member. All results are consistent with the hypothesis that participants are more altruistic toward an ingroup match. (JEL C91, D03, Z13)

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Susceptibility of Angoff Method to Judgmental Errors: A Laboratory Experiment

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e518572013-354 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Daren S. Protolipac ◽

Lisa Finkelstein ◽

John Kulas

Keyword(s):

Laboratory Experiment ◽

Angoff Method

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A Welfare-Tradeoff-Ratio-Framework of Social Preferences

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e639522013-001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Bjoern Hartig

Keyword(s):

Social Preferences

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The advantage of measuring social preferences on a continuous unidimensional scale

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e653632011-032 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Ryan Murphy ◽

Kurt Ackermann ◽

Michel J. J. Handgraaf

Keyword(s):

Social Preferences ◽

Unidimensional Scale

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Investigation of discontinuous periodic signals using the measuring labview complex

Quality Innovation Education ◽

10.31145/1999-513x-2020-5-72-79 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 72-79

Author(s):

E.B. Solovyeva ◽

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Yu.M. Inshakov ◽

Keyword(s):

Fourier Series ◽

Laboratory Experiment ◽

Gibbs Phenomenon ◽

Electrical Signals ◽

Measuring Complex ◽

Universal Measuring ◽

Depth Study ◽

Periodic Signals ◽

Truncated Fourier Series

General approaches to the analysis of the Gibbs phenomenon for discontinuous periodic signals approximated by the truncated Fourier series are considered. Methods for smoothing the truncated Fourier series and improving its convergence are discussed. The software means for modeling is a universal measuring complex LabVIEW, which possesses a convenient environment for analyzing electrical signals, on the basis of this complex a laboratory experiment is carried out. The advantages of the measuring LabVIEW complex and its capabilities for in-depth study of discontinuous periodic signals are noted.

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