Policies Designed for Self-Interested Citizens May Undermine "The Moral Sentiments": Evidence from Economic Experiments

By Samuel Bowles. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems and Management, Safety Research

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Beyond Altruism: Sociological Foundations of Cooperation and Prosocial Behavior (2015, positive): “We noted, for instance, that the introduction of monetary sanctions can lead those who would otherwise be inclined to cooperate to behave less prosocially when the sanctions are removed (e.g., Bowles 2008 R e r t .”
Organizational Control Systems and Pay-for-Performance in the Public Service (2013, background): “…inherent to the introduction of such control systems in general (e.g. Frey, 2007; Lindenberg, 2001; Lindenberg & Foss, 2011; Falk & Kosfeld, 2006; Bowles, 2008; Bowles & Polania-Reyes, 2012) as well as in the public sector (e.g. Milkovich & Wigdor, 1991; Perry, 1986; Ingraham, 1993; Kellough &…”
Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism (2010, result): “This has been recently proven to be the case, particularly for women (Mellström and Johannesson, 2008), and other studies have shown that the use of financial incentivesmay sometimes contraveneor undermine civic duty in particular situations (Frey and Oberholzer-Gee, 1997; Bowles, 2008).”
The Brave New World of Carbon Trading (2009, background): “Crowding out can occur if extrinsic incentives imply distrust, suggest that selfinterested behaviour is appropriate, or are perceived to reduce a person’s sense of autonomy (Bowles 2008).”
Recycling: Social norms and warm-glow revisited (2013, background): “These results have been explained by Bowles (2008), who argues 154 monetary incentives are framed in such a way as to induce self-interest as a response.”
Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win‐win solutions (2013, background): “For example, payments might enhance or crowd out intrinsic motivations to undertake an activity (Frey and Jegen 2001; Bowles 2008; Charness and Gneezy 2009).”
Payments for Ecosystem Services: Rife With Problems and Potential—For Transformation Towards Sustainability (2017, background): “…incentives including PES have the potential to reinforce or reduce intrinsic motivations and social norms such as pro-conservation norms, depending in part on how institutions and initiatives are structured and the context in which they are implemented (Bowles, 2008; van Noordwijk et al., 2012).”
On the relation between ecosystem services, intrinsic value, existence value and economic valuation (2013, background): “Conservationists have not been convinced, however, and warn that increased public attention for nature's instrumental valuemay erode public attention for nature's intrinsic value (see e.g., Bowles, 2008; Kosoy and Corbera, 2010; McCaulay, 2006).”
Payments for biodiversity conservation in the context of weak institutions:Comparison of three programs from Cambodia? (2010, positive): “Externally-imposed rules and incentives may even ‘crowd-out’ locally-developed rules and social norms (Bowles, 2008; Cardenas et al., 2000; Vatn, 2010-this issue), or lead to perceptions that incentives are unfair (Fehr and Falk, 2002), as may have occurred in the bird nests case.”
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, neutral): “…selfish, which might include diverting organizational resources for their own gain by focusing on personal agendas, padding expense accounts, pilfering the public purse, stealing water from the common canal, and by the many other ways that selfish people can exploit the organization (Bowles 2008).”
Payments for Environmental Services and Motivation Crowding: Towards a Conceptual Framework (2019, background): “…specifically with pro-environmental behaviour, economic theories and experiments have recently mounted in the areas of industrial, water and waste management, recycling, and mobility and consumption decisions (Frey, 1992; 1993; Frey and Oberholzer-Gee, 1997; Brekke et al., 2003; Bowles, 2008).”
When payments for environmental services will work for conservation (2013, background): “On the service provider side, the general literature points to the danger that especially small payments can come to undermine moral sentiments in recipients, so that monetary self-interests in incentives “crowds out” their altruistic motives for doing good (Frey & Jegen 2001; Bowles 2008).”