Social Comparisons and Pro-social Behavior: Testing "Conditional Cooperation" in a Field Experiment

By Bruno S. Frey, Stephan Meier. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Small matches and charitable giving: Evidence from a natural field experiment (2011, background): “Related to this line of work, Frey and Meier (2004) provide empirical evidence from a clever natural field experiment that suggests individual comparisons are important when making the donation decision.”
Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments (2018, positive): “Third, we contribute to a growing stream of literature on social preferences in the field (e.g. Frey and Meier 2004; Gneezy and List 2006; List 2006; Gneezy et al. 2010; DellaVigna et al. 2012; Andreoni et al. 2017; Kessler et al. 2018).”
Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour (2015, background): “Consistent with this notion, Ostrom [150] has argued that reciprocity, trust and reputation can overcome short-term self-interest, with evidence from public good experiments showing that many people are conditional co-operators, that is, they will contribute to the provision of public goods if they ”
A Social Norms Intervention Going Wrong: Boomerang Effects from Descriptive Norms Information (2018, background): “It is possible that social norms become effective already before a “real majority” is reached when the reference group is relevant [49,50].”
What's the right thing to do? Increasing pro-sociality with simple moral nudges (2017, neutral): “…by others (Ekström, 2012; Ernest-Jones, Nettle & Bateson, 2011); informing people about the actions of others to make a social norm salient (Frey & Meier, 2004; Capraro & Tavoni, 2017); giving gifts while asking for a donation, in order to induce a reciprocal feeling of obligation (Falk,…”
The behavioural economics of climate change (2008, background): “a crowding-out effect; see Frey and Oberholzer-Gee (1997), Gneezy and Rustichini (2000) and Brekke et al.”
Conditional cooperation: Behavioral regularities from the lab and the field and their policy implications (2006, methodology): “A first interesting study is by Frey and Meier (2004).”
Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2019, background): “Most closely related, Hossain and Morgan (2006) and Chetty et al.”
Design of Stated Preference Surveys: Is There More to Learn from Behavioral Economics? (2010, background): “2004), information about what others do (Bardsley and Sausgruber 2005; Carlsson et al. 2008; Frey and Meier 2004; Shang and Croson 2006), and the characteristics of the interviewer/solicitor (Bateman and Mawby 2004; Landry et al.”
The short-run and long-run effects of behavioral interventions: Experimental evidence from energy conservation (2014, neutral): “…and Rogers 2009), retirement savings (Beshears et al. 2012), water use (Ferraro and Miranda 2013; Ferraro and Price 2013) and charitable giving (Frey and Meier 2004; Shang and Croson 2009), as well as a broader literature in psychology on social norms, including Cialdini, Reno, and Kallgren…”
Avoiding the Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving (2017, neutral): “While there is clear evidence that signaling concerns motivate giving elsewhere (Andreoni and Bernheim, 2009; Frey and Meier, 2004), in this circumstance it seems that the lack of positive sorting toward solicitors, and the huge differential effect of a verbal request on rates and amounts of giving ”
Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples (2013, background): “…student has to decide whether or not he or she wants to contribute a predetermined amount to two social funds which provide charitable services ( nancial support for foreign students (CHF 5) and free loans for needy students (CHF 7), for further details, see Frey and Meier 2004a,b, CHF 1 $0.85).”