Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay

Erika Seki, Jeffrey Carpenter

Research output: Working paperDiscussion paper

Abstract

We provide a reason for the wider economics profession to take social preferences, a concern for the outcomes achieved by other reference agents, seriously. Although we show that student measures of social preference elicited in an experiment have little external validity when compared to measures obtained from a field experiment with a population of participants who face a social dilemma in their daily lives (i.e., team production), we also find strong links between the social preferences of our field participants and their productivity at work.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherCentre for European Labour Market Research
Number of pages35
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2004

Publication series

NameUniversity of Aberdeen Business School Working Paper Series
No.08
Volume2004
ISSN (Print)0143-4543

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