@techreport{Anderson2010Self,
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.},
address = {Nottingham},
author = {Jon Anderson and Stephen V. Burks and Jeffrey Carpenter and Lorenz G\"{o}tte and Karsten Maurer and Daniele Nosenzo and Ruth Potter and Kim Rocha and Aldo Rustichini},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C90; D03; 330; methodology; selection bias; laboratory experiment; field experiment; otherregarding behavior; social preferences; truckload; trucker},
language = {eng},
number = {2010-22},
publisher = {CEDEX},
title = {Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults},
type = {CeDEx discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49665},
year = {2010}
}
