TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carpenter, Jeffrey P.
AU  - Robbett, Andrea
        TI  - Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences
        PY  - 2022/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15590
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15590
        AB  - We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse off. We endogenously identify latent preference types that replicate previous estimates; however, accounting for the normative appropriateness of decisions reveals different motives. Rather than being mostly altruistic, participants are better described as strong altruists or norm followers. Our results (which are robust to moral wiggle room) thus recast prior findings in a new light.
        KW  - structural estimation
KW  - moral wiggle room
KW  - altruism
KW  - social preferences
KW  - social norms
KW  - experiment
KW  - finite mixture models
        ER  -