What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World

By Steven D. Levitt, John A. List. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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The impact of downward social information on contribution decisions (2008, background): “Levitt and List (2007) suggest that economic behavior is caused by an interaction between the individual and the situation in which they find themselves.”
Information and Efficiency: Goal Arrival in Soccer Betting (2014, background): “Included in the sample are recent 8See Levitt and List (2007) for a recent consideration of factors affecting the generalizability of laboratory findings, including the extent to and manner in which subjects are scrutinized in their decision-making.”
The Importance of Social Product Attributes in Consumer Purchasing Decisions: A Multi-Country Comparative Study (2010, positive): “A more rigorous stream of research has attempted to deal with these same issues and quantify the value of ethical product features for specific groups of consumers based on laboratory and field experimentation or bidding/bargaining games (e.g., Levitt & List, 2007; List, 2006).”
Inequity Aversion and the International Distribution of Trade Protection (2012, background): “Limao and Panagariya (2007) address the question of why trade policy is biased toward import-competing sectors—and therefore restricts rather than increases trade—and show that this bias may be a consequence of government concern about inequality.”
Do Ethics Matter? Tax Compliance and Morality (2011, background): “It is also possible that subjects may modify their behavior simply because they know that they are participating in an experiment, exhibiting more “obedience to authority” and more “pro-social behavior” in the laboratory than in the naturally occurring world (Levitt and List, 2007).”
Saving Power to Conserve Your Reputation? The Effectiveness of Private versus Public Information (2012, positive): “This can create a social norm over electricity usage that increases the moral cost of not conserving (Levitt and List, 2007).”
Taxpayer Information Assistance Services and Tax Compliance Behavior (2010, background): “See Levitt and List (2007).”
Prosocial behavior and incentives: Evidence from field experiments in rural Mexico and Tanzania (2012, background): “Moreover, in a review of experimental economics literature, Levitt and List (2007) find that in comparing framed field experiments with real market situations, although the experiments usually yield results that are qualitatively similar to what is found in real life, people show a greater tendency ”
Self-selection and variations in the laboratory measurement of other-regarding preferences across subject pools: evidence from one college student and two adult samples (2013, methodology): “…data also include a measure of subjects’ need for social approval (the “Unlikely Virtues Scale”, developed by Patrick et al., 2002), which we use to examine whether, as suggested by Levitt and List (2007), approval-seeking is positively related to decisions to selfselect into experimental studies.”
Performance Under Pressure in the NBA (2011, neutral): “Levitt and List (2007) provide a discussion of the advantages of data ‘‘from the field.’’”
Signaling can increase consumers' willingness to pay for green products. Theoretical model and experimental evidence (2019, neutral): “Second, both studies were conducted with university students, which raises the question of how other sub-populations would behave in response to the experimental treatments (Levitt & List, 2007).”