The Preference Survey Module: New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran

Michael Kosfeld and Zahra Sharafi ()
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Zahra Sharafi: Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

No 15006, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We provide new evidence on the extent that survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity − predict behavior in corresponding experimental games outside the original student sample from Bonn, Germany. Our results, which are based on a replication study in Tehran, Iran, are somewhat mixed. While quantitative items considering hypothetical versions of the experimental games correlate significantly and economically meaningfully with individual behavior, none of the qualitative items show significant correlations. The only exception is altruism where results correspond more closely to the original findings.

Keywords: validation; global preference survey; preference survey module; replication; social preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 C83 C90 D01 D03 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2022-01
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Published - published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2024, 10, 152–164

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