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Do Social PreferencesIncrease Productivity? Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyoma Bay

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Jeffrey Carpenter ()
Erika Seki ()

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We provide a reason for the wider economics profession to take social preferences, a concern for the outcomes achieved by other reference agents, seriously. Although, we show that student measures of social preference elicited in an experiment have little external validity when compared to measures obtained from a field experiment with a population of participants who face a social dilemma in their daily lives (i.e. team production), we do find strong links between the social preferences of our field participants and their productivity at work. We also find that the stock of social preferences evolves endogeously with respect to how widely team production is utilized.

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Keywords: Field experiment social preference income pooling productivity

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C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior
D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity
H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Social Norms and Social Capital; Social Networks Economic Anthropology

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