What motivates paternalism? An experimental study

S Ambuehl, BD Bernheim, A Ockenfels - American economic review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We study experimentally when, why, and how people intervene in others' choices. Choice
Architects (CAs) construct opportunity sets containing bundles of time-indexed payments for …

Sacred values? The effect of information on attitudes toward payments for human organs

JJ Elias, N Lacetera, M Macis - American Economic Review, 2015 - aeaweb.org
Are attitudes about morally controversial (and often prohibited) market transactions affected
by information about their costs and benefits? We address this question for the case of …

Distinct but not apart? Stigma reduction and cross-industry evaluative spillovers: The case of medical marijuana legalization

AM Aranda, R Conti, FC Wezel - Academy of Management …, 2021 - journals.aom.org
Previous research on stigma reduction has been primarily confined to single industries.
However, industry boundaries are porous in the eyes of audience members and can hardly …

An offer you can't refuse? Incentives change what we believe

S Ambuehl - 2017 - econstor.eu
Much of economics assumes that higher incentives increase participation in a transaction
only because they exceed more people's reservation price. This paper shows theoretically …

Opposition to markets: Experimental evidence

KE Hauge, S Kverndokk, A Lange - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2024 - Elsevier
We experimentally investigate reasons for opposing market institutions. The experiment
shows that opposition to implementing market institutions varies by background …

[HTML][HTML] Do people intervene to make others behave prosocially?

V Ackfeld, A Ockenfels - Games and Economic Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
We experimentally investigate people's willingness to intervene in others' decision-making
in order to promote a charitable donation. We find that only a minority of those subjects who …

[HTML][HTML] Saudi nursing and medical student's knowledge and attitude toward organ donation-a comparative cross-sectional study

F Majeed - International journal of health sciences, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives Proper awareness among health professionals about organ donation is important
for increasing organ procurement. Personal commitment and attitude of nurses are …

Projective paternalism

S Ambuehl, BD Bernheim, A Ockenfels - 2019 - nber.org
We study experimentally when, why, and how people intervene in others' choices. Choice
Architects (CAs) construct opportunity sets containing bundles of time-indexed payments for …

Equity concerns are narrowly framed

CL Exley, JB Kessler - American Economic Journal …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Distributional decisions regularly involve multiple payoff components. In a series of
experiments, we show that individuals sometimes exhibit narrow equity concerns: applying …

Attention and selection effects

S Ambuehl, A Ockenfels, C Stewart - 2018 - econstor.eu
Who participates in transactions when information about the consequences must be
learned? We show theoretically that decision makers for whom acquiring and processing …