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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Anderson, Jon | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Burks, Stephen V. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Carpenter, Jeffrey P. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Goette, Lorenz | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Maurer, Karsten | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Nosenzo, Daniele | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Potter, Ruth | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Rocha, Kim | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Rustichini, Aldo | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2011-10-20 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2011-11-23T11:39:00Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2011-11-23T11:39:00Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2010 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51899 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. Both of the first two groups were recruited according to procedures commonly used in experimental economics (i.e., via e-mail and bulletin-board advertisements) 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. We also test (and reject) the more specific hypothesis that approval-seeking subjects are the ones most likely to select into experiments. At the same time, we find a large difference between the self-selected students and the self-selected adults from the surrounding community: the students appear considerably less pro-social. Regression results controlling for demographic factors confirm these basic findings. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5389 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | C90 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D03 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | methodology | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | selection bias | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | laboratory experiment | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | field experiment | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | other-regarding behavior | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | social preferences | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | truckload | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | trucker | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 670286451 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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