| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8019 |
| DP8019 Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-SelectedStudent Samples | |
| Armin Falk; Christian Zehnder; Stephan Meier | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-09-23 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who exhibit stronger prosocial inclinations in an unrelated field donation are not more likely to participate in experiments. This suggests that self-selection of more prosocial students into experiments is not a major issue. Our second study compares behavior of students and the general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two groups. If anything, the level of reciprocation seems higher among non-students implying an even greater importance of social preferences than assumed from student samples. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Experiments Methodology Prosocial behavior Selection |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8019 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536856 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Armin Falk,Christian Zehnder,Stephan Meier. DP8019 Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-SelectedStudent Samples. 2010. |
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