Normative reflection in a public good experiment LUISS规范体现在公众的良好的实验路易斯.pptVIP

Karen Evelyn Hauge ESA Rome June 2007 * Public good situations: My choice effects your possibilities “How should I behave?”- Moral motivation Norms guide behavior Norm salience (ex: Cialdini, 1990) Public good experiment where subjects are induced to reflect on normative aspect of situation * Public good game experiment 3 treatments Control: standard (16 subjects) Recursive: 10 repetitions, groups of 4 Between subject design T1: Unconditional moral question (20 subjects) “In your personal opinion, what is the ethically right thing to do? How many units should you contribute to the group project?” T2: Conditional moral question (20 subjects) “...If other group members on average contribute the following rounded amounts, how many units should you contribute?” * Unconditional moral question 15/20 subjects state ideal is 10 5/20 subjects state ideal is between 3 and 8 Conditional moral question 4/20 unconditional ideals 9/20 exactly the average of others 5/20 ideals depends positively on average of others 2/20 random * * Individual average contributions, comparing Control are T1: significant difference (p=0.0446), Control and T2: not significant difference (p=0.1147) T1 and T2: not significant difference (p=0.5880) Regression results Sign coeff: ideal, dummy for T1 and T2, dummy for period 9 and 10, age. * 1. Normative reflection has a positive and significant impact on contribution behavior in a public goods experiment, when unconditional moral question Positive but not significant impact when conditiotional moral question Norm salience as a policy instrument Few observations Future research should look into anchoring effect and effect on expectations *