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On the robustness of social norm elicitation

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  • Christian König-Kersting

    (University of Innsbruck)

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We study the robustness of Krupka and Weber’s method (2013) for eliciting social norms. In two online experiments with more than 1200 participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk, we find that participants’ response patterns are invariant to differences in the salience of the monetarily incentivized coordination aspect. We further demonstrate that asking participants for their personal first- and second-order beliefs without monetary incentives results in qualitatively identical responses in the case that beliefs and social norms are well aligned. Overall, Krupka and Weber’s method produces remarkably robust response patterns.

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  • Christian König-Kersting, 2024. "On the robustness of social norm elicitation," Journal of the Economic Science Association, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 10(2), pages 531-543, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jesaex:v:10:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1007_s40881-024-00178-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s40881-024-00178-2
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    Social norms; Incentives; Beliefs; Robustness;
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    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
    • D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General

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