Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102475
C. Mollier , A. García-Gallego , T. Jaber-Lopez , S. Zaccagni
We investigate how competition outcomes and the opponent’s gender affect the decision to compete again, using a lab experiment. Our experimental design adopts the strategy method to measure individuals’ reactions to winning or losing. Subjects indicate their willingness to compete again based on performance gaps with their opponents. Furthermore, gender is inferred from participant-selected-names, allowing us to explore the role of the opponent’s gender. Against our main hypothesis, after winning against a female opponent men exhibit a decrease in their willingness to compete again. The primary mechanism underlying men’s behavior appears to be the presence of inaccurate beliefs—specifically, expecting to win but ultimately losing. Our main finding is that men with inaccurate beliefs, when competing against women, are significantly more likely to re-enter the competition and to outperform their female opponents in subsequent rounds.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102480
Augustinos Dimitras , Vasileios Fourlas , Erich Kirchler , George Peppas
In countries where tax compliance is low and tax evasion is widespread, the specific compliance behavior of micro-business owners remains poorly understood. This study addresses this gap by analyzing both voluntary and enforced tax compliance among a nationally representative sample of 1761 micro-business owners in Greece. Guided by the Slippery Slope Framework (SSF), we find that trust in tax authorities is closely associated with voluntary compliance, whereas perceptions of coercive power are primarily linked to enforced compliance. Notably, women leading micro-businesses report higher trust and stronger compliance intentions across both motivational types. Perceptions of fairness, legitimacy, and corruption, as well as emotional responses toward tax authorities, are related to trust and indirectly associated with voluntary compliance. Our findings underscore the central role of trust in understanding cooperative taxpayer behavior and suggest that service-oriented, transparent, and fair administrative practices could support greater voluntary compliance, particularly within the micro-business sector.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102476
Raúl López-Pérez , Diego Santamaría
The way individuals perceive free markets plays a pivotal role in shaping policy preferences. In this study, we investigate the potential correlation between beliefs about human pro-sociality and the perception that free markets contribute to overall societal well-being. To explore this relationship, we employ incentivized belief elicitation techniques, capturing individuals' perspectives on the prevalence of self-interested, damaging, and helping behavior across diverse situations in four experimental games. Our findings reveal that the most significant predictor of a high confidence in free markets is an optimistic or uncynical worldview. Specifically, this refers to the belief that disinterested and reciprocal helping behavior occurs frequently. In contrast, interpersonal trust and beliefs about the frequency of some specific pro-social and anti-social behaviors do not influence confidence in free markets.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102478
Xuezheng Chen , Yang Sun , Hongru Tan
This study introduces a new experimental framework to examine how team incentives and social learning contribute to dishonest behavior within groups. The experimental framework can be applied to measure dishonesty both at the aggregate and individual levels, and it can be used to study the spread of unethical behavior under various scenarios. The analytical results show that both social learning and team incentives can significantly promote dishonesty, independently or in combination. When both social learning and team incentives are present, they can interact and amplify each other's impact on promoting dishonesty. Moreover, we find that while both honesty and dishonesty are contagious, dishonest behavior is more readily imitated by individuals. This implies that social learning is self-serving, hence, moral standards are subject to being progressively undermined in the process of social learning, when there is no punishment on unethical behaviors. Furthermore, the analysis on round-to-round interactions show that social learning’s effect on dishonesty emerges gradually without team incentives. However, team incentives amplify and accelerate this effect, influencing behavior immediately.
{"title":"Lying in groups: Team incentives and social learning","authors":"Xuezheng Chen , Yang Sun , Hongru Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102478","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102478","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduces a new experimental framework to examine how team incentives and social learning contribute to dishonest behavior within groups. The experimental framework can be applied to measure dishonesty both at the aggregate and individual levels, and it can be used to study the spread of unethical behavior under various scenarios. The analytical results show that both social learning and team incentives can significantly promote dishonesty, independently or in combination. When both social learning and team incentives are present, they can interact and amplify each other's impact on promoting dishonesty. Moreover, we find that while both honesty and dishonesty are contagious, dishonest behavior is more readily imitated by individuals. This implies that social learning is self-serving, hence, moral standards are subject to being progressively undermined in the process of social learning, when there is no punishment on unethical behaviors. Furthermore, the analysis on round-to-round interactions show that social learning’s effect on dishonesty emerges gradually without team incentives. However, team incentives amplify and accelerate this effect, influencing behavior immediately.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102478"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145527994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102471
M. Sánchez , A. Urbano
This paper develops a dynamic model of multichannel price setting under market signaling and learning. A monopolist sells a good through two channels: brick-and-mortar and online. We introduce two novel features: (i) instrumental and idiosyncratic privacy concerns for consumers purchasing online, and (ii) the idea that firms possess better information about the market’s average privacy concerns than individual consumers, and signal this information through prices. In any fully revealing equilibrium, price signaling can distort prices upward compared to a setting in which the monopolist’s private information is common knowledge. Moreover, social welfare may be higher under a non-informative (pooling) equilibrium than under a fully revealing equilibrium if the realized market signal is sufficiently high. These results offer new insights into the interplay between privacy concerns, information asymmetry, and dynamic pricing in the digital economy, with implications for policy design.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102467
Barış K. Yörük
How does diversity affect charitable giving? On the one hand, diversity can lead to increased charitable giving, as individuals may feel more connected to and invested in their community when they see the diversity of needs and perspectives within it. On the other hand, diversity can also create challenges for charitable giving, as individuals may have different priorities, beliefs, and cultural norms that affect their willingness to give to certain causes and organizations. Using data from 2010–2020 county-level income tax returns linked to the U.S. Census population estimates, I find a negative impact of local ethnic diversity on charitable giving. In particular, I document that a one percentage point increase in the local ethnic fragmentation index is associated with up to a 2.9 percent decrease in the fraction of tax returns with charitable contributions and a 2 percent decrease in charitable contributions as a fraction of adjusted gross income. I find that local ethnic diversity neither significantly affects charities’ fundraising efforts nor increases potential donors’ probability of receiving a charitable solicitation, which suggests that the estimated effects of diversity cannot be attributed to potential differences in strategic charity behavior that may stem from heterogeneous community characteristics. I also present some evidence that while the effect of political diversity on charitable giving is mixed, religious diversity does not have a significant impact on giving.
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This study explores the effectiveness of behavioral interventions, specifically edutainment rooted in environmental education, in fostering pro-environmental behavior (PEB) among primary school students. Through a lab-in-the-field experiment, the research focuses on the impact of an environmental edutainment game on children's monetary donations to environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) as PEB. Findings suggest that having played an environmental edutainment game does not significantly affect the amount donated, though it appears to influence the likelihood of making a donation, particularly among male and students from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Besides, female participants and students with a higher socio-economic and cultural profile exhibit higher likelihood to donate and higher effective donations, regardless of the edutainment intervention.
{"title":"Environmental edutainment games and pro-environmental behavior of primary school students: Evidence from a field experiment","authors":"Emmanuel Dubois , Stefano Farolfi , Lisette Hafkamp-Ibanez , Sébastien Roussel","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102474","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102474","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the effectiveness of behavioral interventions, specifically edutainment rooted in environmental education, in fostering pro-environmental behavior (PEB) among primary school students. Through a lab-in-the-field experiment, the research focuses on the impact of an environmental edutainment game on children's monetary donations to environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) as PEB. Findings suggest that having played an environmental edutainment game does not significantly affect the amount donated, though it appears to influence the likelihood of making a donation, particularly among male and students from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Besides, female participants and students with a higher socio-economic and cultural profile exhibit higher likelihood to donate and higher effective donations, regardless of the edutainment intervention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102474"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145528500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102466
Duk Gyoo Kim , Max Riegel
This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank–inequality tradeoff. In a real-time online experiment, participants chose to either alleviate inequality by relinquishing their current relative rank or exacerbate inequality while maintaining their current rank. Two essential features of the experiment are: (1) participants’ relative rank is the outcome of their real-effort performance and luck; (2) participants’ genders are naturally revealed by gender-specific nicknames. We found that female participants are more reluctant to relinquish their current relative rank when the persons ranked below and above them are of the opposite gender. This tendency was less pronounced in the male participants.
{"title":"Rank versus inequality—Does gender composition matter?","authors":"Duk Gyoo Kim , Max Riegel","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102466","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102466","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank–inequality tradeoff. In a real-time online experiment, participants chose to either alleviate inequality by relinquishing their current relative rank or exacerbate inequality while maintaining their current rank. Two essential features of the experiment are: (1) participants’ relative rank is the outcome of their real-effort performance and luck; (2) participants’ genders are naturally revealed by gender-specific nicknames. We found that female participants are more reluctant to relinquish their current relative rank when the persons ranked below and above them are of the opposite gender. This tendency was less pronounced in the male participants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102466"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145415087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102473
Magdalena Adamus , Martin Guzi , Eva Ballová Mikušková
The paper investigates gender biases and differential treatment of women and men in the business start-up phase. A sample of 498 entrepreneurs from Slovakia participated in an online experiment and evaluated three fictitious business plans in terms of the applicants’ competence, likeability, and business ability. Evaluators also indicated the survival chances of each planned business, the amount they would be willing to invest in each of the start-ups, and selected the most promising applicant. The start-ups were positioned in three different sectors—cosmetics production, services provision, and software development—where men’s and women’s chances of success may be viewed differently. Following Goldberg’s paradigm, half of the evaluators received business plans presented as written by female and half by male applicants; otherwise the plans were identical. Although our results show that, in general, female applicants are assessed similarly to male applicants, masculine evaluators assess women’s business plans and their potential in entrepreneurship more critically. Finally, the study shows that caution is advised when recommending to increase the number of female evaluators of business plans at various stages of the evaluation process. If women who become involved in entrepreneurship are excessively masculine and masculinity is associated with a less favourable evaluation of potential female entrepreneurs, such policies could backfire against women, putting them in a more disadvantaged position.
{"title":"Evaluators’ masculine gender identity may drive gender biases in peer evaluation of business plans","authors":"Magdalena Adamus , Martin Guzi , Eva Ballová Mikušková","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102473","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102473","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper investigates gender biases and differential treatment of women and men in the business start-up phase. A sample of 498 entrepreneurs from Slovakia participated in an online experiment and evaluated three fictitious business plans in terms of the applicants’ competence, likeability, and business ability. Evaluators also indicated the survival chances of each planned business, the amount they would be willing to invest in each of the start-ups, and selected the most promising applicant. The start-ups were positioned in three different sectors—cosmetics production, services provision, and software development—where men’s and women’s chances of success may be viewed differently. Following Goldberg’s paradigm, half of the evaluators received business plans presented as written by female and half by male applicants; otherwise the plans were identical. Although our results show that, in general, female applicants are assessed similarly to male applicants, masculine evaluators assess women’s business plans and their potential in entrepreneurship more critically. Finally, the study shows that caution is advised when recommending to increase the number of female evaluators of business plans at various stages of the evaluation process. If women who become involved in entrepreneurship are excessively masculine and masculinity is associated with a less favourable evaluation of potential female entrepreneurs, such policies could backfire against women, putting them in a more disadvantaged position.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102473"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145465651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102472
Zacharias Maniadis
Scientists are under pressure to adhere to best practices for enhancing reproducibility, such as preregistration and data sharing. This tendency will certainly increase with the unfolding reforms in researcher assessment, and it brings new challenges. Heterogeneity in the amenability of different domains to reproducibility-enhancing practices raises an issue of possible inequity: will different scientific domains bear disparate adjustment costs? Is this justified and efficient? To illustrate the problem, we consider recent concerns expressed by experimental economists, namely that they are unfairly burdened relative to other economics domains. Our analysis indicates that such fairness concerns may have merit, but only insofar as research assessment does not fully internalize the costs of adjusting to new practices.
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