| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11017 |
| DP11017 Good Samaritans and the Market: Experimental Evidence on Other-Regarding Preferences in Partnership Formation | |
| Marcel Fafchamps; Michele Belot | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-12-20 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We construct an experiment to study the role of other-regarding preferences in the process of partnership formation. The literature on decentralized matching describes the process of match formation as a market-like process while the literature on other-regarding preferences suggests that such preferences are particularly strong in small partnerships. So we ask: do people apply market-like heuristics when searching for a partner (i.e. behave selfishly); or do they behave more pro-socially, as they do once these partnerships or small entities are formed? And if they do behave differently, what motivates differences in behavior? We focus on one possible mechanism explaining differences in behavior: the saliency of the implications of choices on others. We compare partnership choices in three treatments, varying the saliency of the implications of choices on others. We find that a market-like situation reduces the `good samaritan' spirit in this environment as well: when choosing a partner agents are less likely to sacrifice their own material well-being to increase the well-being of others. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Industrial Organization |
| 关键词 | Efficiency Inequality Markets Other-regarding preferences Partnership formation |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11017 |
| 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/539846 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcel Fafchamps,Michele Belot. DP11017 Good Samaritans and the Market: Experimental Evidence on Other-Regarding Preferences in Partnership Formation. 2015. |
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