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dc.contributor.author | Anderson, Jon | en |
dc.contributor.author | Burks, Stephen V. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Carpenter, Jeffrey | en |
dc.contributor.author | Götte, Lorenz | en |
dc.contributor.author | Maurer, Karsten | en |
dc.contributor.author | Nosenzo, Daniele | en |
dc.contributor.author | Potter, Ruth | en |
dc.contributor.author | Rocha, Kim | en |
dc.contributor.author | Rustichini, Aldo | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-26T13:23:58Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-26T13:23:58Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49665 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The first two groups were recruited according to procedures commonly used in experimental economics and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the opportunity cost of participating dramatically, 91% of the solicited trainees participated in the third group, so there was little scope for self-selection in this sample. We find no differences in the elicited other-regarding preferences between the self-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with respect to non-student adult subjects. At the same time, we find a large difference between self-selected students and self-selected adults: the students appear considerably less pro-social. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aThe University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx) |cNottingham | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCeDEx Discussion Paper Series |x2010-22 | en |
dc.subject.jel | C90 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D03 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | methodology | en |
dc.subject.keyword | selection bias | en |
dc.subject.keyword | laboratory experiment | en |
dc.subject.keyword | field experiment | en |
dc.subject.keyword | otherregarding behavior | en |
dc.subject.keyword | social preferences | en |
dc.subject.keyword | truckload | en |
dc.subject.keyword | trucker | en |
dc.title | Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 655716858 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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