Do people behave in experiments as in the field?—evidence from donations

By Matthias Benz, Stephan Meier. 2008

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The external validity of giving in the dictator game (2012, background): “Thus, although the design of the study differs from Benz and Meier (2008) with respect to the experiment (trust game) and field setting (much larger time lag), the results are very similar and confirm external validity of reciprocal behavior displayed in the experiment.”
What's the right thing to do? Increasing pro-sociality with simple moral nudges (2017, unknown): “However, the question whether behaviour in economic games reflects behaviour in real life is still debated, with some studies finding a positive association (42,45,48-50), whereas others challenging this view by reporting only a weak association, if any at all (51-52).”
Trust and cooperation: Social capital and community resource management (2008, unknown): “[5]).”
The Promise and Success of Lab-Field Generalizability in Experimental Economics: A Critical Reply to Levitt and List (2011, background): “Donations to student funds: Benz and Meier [2008] compare naturally-occurring donations of CHF 7 and CHF 5 to two student fund, with experimental donations after classes from a CHF 12 endowment to the same two funds.”
Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples (2013, methodology): “To further increase the confidence that the variable Average Field Donation measures an individual’s prosocial inclination we use data collected by Benz and Meier (2008). They perform a modified dictator game in the laboratory using a subsample of the students in our data set as participants.”
A field study on cooperativeness and impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons (2011, background): “Only a few studies combine laboratory experiments with field observations for a better understanding of cooperation behavior in the field (Karlan, 2005; Carpenter and Seki, forthcoming; List, 2004a, 2004b, 2006; Laury and Taylor, 08; Benz and Meier, 2008).”
Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior. (2015, background): “…dictator game " —a widely used single trial economic game that assesses prosocial sharing (Forsythe, Horowitz, Savin, & Sefton, 1994), and is predictive of " real world " prosociality (e.g., returning a misdirected letter containing money; Benz & Meier, 2008; Franzen & Pointner, 2013; Stoop, 2014).”
Mixed feelings: Theories of and evidence on giving (2010, background): “As Benz and Meier (2008) and Eckel and Grossman (2008) find, laboratory experiments with modest stakes can produce results that are qualitatively similar to those with larger stakes in the field, even if the effects are quantitatively attenuated.”
Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices (2022, unknown): “See Schmidt et al. (2008); Abdellaoui et al. (2007); Harrison and Rutström (2009); and Bruhin et al. (2010) for further plausible a values.”
Why Do Investors Hold Socially Responsible Mutual Funds?: Why Do Investors Hold Socially Responsible Mutual Funds? (2017, unknown): “List (2007), Benz and Meier (2008), Falk and Heckman (2009), Baran, Sapienza and”