Social motives vs social influence: an experiment on interdependent time preferences
Rodriguez-Lara, Ismael and Ponti, Giovanni (2017) Social motives vs social influence: an experiment on interdependent time preferences. Games and Economic Behavior, 105 . pp. 177-194. ISSN 0899-8256 [Article] (doi:10.1016/j.geb.2017.06.007)
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Abstract
We report experimental evidence on the effects of social preferences on intertemporal decisions. To this aim, we design an intertemporal Dictator Game to test whether Dictators modify their discounting behavior when their own decision is imposed on their matched Recipients. We run four different treatments to identify the effect of payoffs externalities from those related to information and beliefs. Our descriptive statistics show that heterogeneous social time preferences and information about others’ time preferences are significant determinants of choices: Dictators display a marked propensity to account for the intertemporal preferences of Recipients, both in the presence of externalities (social motives) and/or when they know about the decisions of their matched partners (social influence). We also perform a structural estimation exercise to control for heterogeneity in risk attitudes. As for individual behavior, our estimates confirm previous studies in that high risk aversion is associated with low discounting. As for social behavior, we find that social motives outweigh social influence, especially when we restrict our sample to pairs of Dictators and Recipients who satisfy minimal consistency conditions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Economics |
| Item ID: | 21912 |
| Notes on copyright: | © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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| Depositing User: | Ismael Rodriguez-Lara |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2017 13:43 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 20:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/21912 |
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