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| Title: | | Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults  |
| Authors: | | Anderson, Jon Burks, Stephen V. Carpenter, Jeffrey Götte, Lorenz Maurer, Karsten Nosenzo, Daniele Potter, Ruth Rocha, Kim Rustichini, Aldo |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CeDEx discussion paper series 2010-22 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | methodology selection bias laboratory experiment field experiment otherregarding behavior social preferences truckload trucker |
| JEL: | | C90 D03 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CeDEx Discussion Paper Series, The University of Nottingham
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