| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23415 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23415 |
| From Extreme to Mainstream: How Social Norms Unravel | |
| Leonardo Bursztyn; Georgy Egorov; Stefano Fiorin | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-05-22 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Social norms are typically thought to be persistent and long-lasting, sometimes surviving through growth, recessions, and regime changes. In some cases, however, they can quickly change. This paper examines the unraveling of social norms in communication when new information becomes available, e.g., aggregated through elections. We build a model of strategic communication between citizens who can hold one of two mutually exclusive opinions. In our model, agents communicate their opinions to each other, and senders care about receivers' approval. As a result, senders are more likely to express the more popular opinion, while receivers make less inference about senders who stated the popular view. We test these predictions 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 reward if they authorize researchers to make a donation to an anti-immigration organization on their behalf. Participants who expect their decision to be observed by the surveyor are significantly less likely to accept the offer than those expecting an anonymous choice. Increases in participants' perceptions of Trump's popularity (either through experimental variation or through the “natural experiment” of his victory) eliminate the wedge between private and public behavior. A second experiment uses dictator games to show that participants judge a person less negatively for publicly expressing (but not for privately holding) a political view they disagree with if that person's social environment is one where the majority of people holds that view. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Economics of Information ; Other ; Economic Systems ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23415 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581089 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Leonardo Bursztyn,Georgy Egorov,Stefano Fiorin. From Extreme to Mainstream: How Social Norms Unravel. 2017. |
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