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Social norms and optimal incentives in firms [PDF]

This paper deals with the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We outline a simple model of team production and provide preliminary results on linear incentive schemes in the presence of a social norm that may cause multiple ...
Huck, Steffen, Kübler, Dorothea, Weibull, Jörgen   +2 more
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Dairy farmers' responses to water quality interventions : a case study in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Agriculture and Environment, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2018
New Zealand freshwater quality has declined, and dairy farming is one identified contributor to this decline. This research provides insight into dairy farmers responses to the water quality interventions introduced to mitigate diffuse pollution, and the
Collins, Heather Mildred
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Exploring the stigma of food stamps [PDF]

This paper reports on theoretical research into the effect of stigma and social norms on policy outcomes of the Food Stamp program, in particular the effect on the caseload.
E. J. Bird
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Social Norms and Behavior in the Local Commons Through the Lens of Field Experiments [PDF]

Behavior in the local commons is usually embedded in a context of regulations and social norms that the group of users face. Such norms and rules affect how individuals value material and non-material incentives and therefore determine their decision to ...
Juan Camilo Cárdenas
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Social support as a mediator between masculinity norms and health behaviors among public safety personnel in Kelantan, Malaysia

Scientific Reports
Men, particularly those in public safety roles, are more prone to engaging in health-risk behaviors due to societal expectations surrounding masculinity.
Muhammad Iqbal Haji Mukhti, Mohd Ismail Ibrahim   +1 more
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Social norms and human cooperation [PDF]

The existence of social norms is one of the big unsolved problems in social cognitive science. Although no other concept is invoked more frequently in the social sciences, we still know little about how social norms are formed, the forces determining ...
Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher
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Editorial: Unravelling Social Norm Effects: How and When Social Norms Affect Eating Behavior

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
F. Marijn Stok, F. Marijn Stok, Saar Mollen, Kirsten T. Verkooijen, Britta Renner   +4 more
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The evolution of social norms [PDF]

Evolutionary game theory provides the tools to analyze which strategies, or patterns of behaviour, emerge over time through a process of adaptation. Social norms can be defined as patterns of behaviour with certain characteristics.
Ivar Kolstad
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A MODEL OF IMMIGRATION, INTEGRATION AND CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF SOCIAL NORMS [PDF]

I present and study an evolutionary model of immigration and culturaltransmission of social norms in a set-up where agents are repeatedly matchedto play a one-shot interaction prisoner´s dilemma.
Friederike Mengel
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Voluntary Emission Reductions, Social Rewards, and Environmental Policy [PDF]

Social norms and intrinsic motivations lead to environmentally friendly behaviour even in the absence of environmental policy. This paper looks at the interactions of social norms and environmental regulation in their impact on individual behaviour ...
Michael Rauscher
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