Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/238260 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2021-02
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
We study the robustness of Krupka and Weber's method (2013) for eliciting social norms. In two experiments with more than 1200 participants, we find that participants' response patterns are invariant to differences in the salience of the monetarily incentivized coordination aspect. We further demonstrate that asking participants for their personal first and second order beliefs without monetary incentives results in qualitatively identical responses. In addition, we observe that participants give sensible responses whether or not they understand the task or their monetary incentives. Overall, Krupka and Weber's method produces remarkably robust response patterns.
Subjects: 
social norms
incentives
beliefs
task comprehension
robustness
JEL: 
C72
C90
D90
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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