Eliciting Thresholds for Interdependent Behavior

Moritz Janas, Nikos Nikiforakis and Simon Siegenthaler

No 32847, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Individuals’ willingness to act often depends on how many others do, but the structure of such interdependence is hard to disentangle with observational data. We introduce an incentivized method to measure interdependence, grounded in threshold models. We apply it to a stratified U.S. sample of 5,000+ Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White adults to study support for affirmative action. We document substantial heterogeneity in thresholds consistent with preregistered hypotheses from a model. Following changes in federal support for affirmative action, thresholds shift even as perceived benefits and beliefs remain unchanged, indicating that thresholds provide insights not captured by standard behavioral measures.

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Date: 2024-08
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