Do norms make preferences social? Supporting evidence from the field

Christoph Rössler, Hannes Rusch and Tim Friehe

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 183, issue C, -

Abstract: We examine whether rule compliance predicts prosocial behavior. We proxy rule compliance by compliance with parking regulations and prosocial behavior via response rates to surveys. We find that surveys attached to legally parked cars are returned more often.

Keywords: Prosocial behavior; Social norms; Field study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108569

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