TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gächter, Simon
AU  - Gerhards, Leonie
AU  - Nosenzo, Daniele
        TI  - The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
        PY  - 2015/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9615
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9615
        AB  - A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show that the presence of "peers" in the decision setting faced by an individual can have a profound influence on the individual's perception of the decision situation and its underlying norms of sharing, as elicited in an incentive compatible way. However, we find limited evidence that this influence of peers in normative considerations translates into a corresponding effect in actual behavior. Partly, this is due to substantial heterogeneity in the extent to which dictators in our sample are willing to comply with norms of fair sharing.
        KW  - social norms
KW  - norm compliance
KW  - peer effects
KW  - fair sharing
KW  - dictator game
KW  - framing
KW  - experiments
        ER  -