Download This PaperMeasuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists
IEER Working Paper No. 97
41 Pages Posted: 1 Feb 2002
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Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists
Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists
Date Written: January 2002
Abstract
Experimental games turned out to be remarkably productive tools for examining the nature of social preferences and social norms. This paper describes the methods and tools of experimental game theory and provides a selection of games that have been useful. We also discuss the role of evolutionary explanations and of social preference theory in organizing the data in a coherent way.
JEL Classification: C91, M40, M46
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