Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89641 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4514
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment in which we elicit willingness to pay for conventional and Fairtrade chocolate. Treatments vary whether this can be signaled to other participants. Subjects concerned with social approval should state a higher Fairtrade premium when signaling is possible. We find that this is the case, but interestingly only for participants who are not intrinsically motivated to buy Fairtrade. This has important implications both for crowding out of intrinsic motivation through incentives and for producer choices.
Subjects: 
image concerns
Fairtrade
ethical consumption
crowding out
experiments
JEL: 
D03
C91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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