Abstract
We conduct an artefactual field experiment to compare the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of three pools of subjects: Undergraduate students, temporary workers and permanent workers. We find that students are more selfish and contribute less than workers. Temporary and permanent contract workers have similar other-regarding preferences and display analogous contribution patterns in an anonymous Public Good Game.
Highlights
Undergraduate university students can be recruited for experiments and are the typical object of inquiry in the experimental social sciences
We report the results of the classification tasks
Focusing on the sample of workers, we investigate whether temporary contract and permanent contract workers behave or whether the type of contractual arrangement is correlated with observable differences
Summary
Undergraduate university students can be recruited for experiments and are the typical object of inquiry in the experimental social sciences. One critical issue linked to this admittedly specific population concerns whether the experimental results obtained with students are robust to using other populations, such as workers or older age people [1,2,3,4] To address this issue, the literature has compared the behavior of undergraduate students with different types of workers, such as nurses [5], Chief. We further study whether there exists a link between the type of worker’s contractual arrangement (temporary or permanent contract) and her social preferences and behavior The answer to the latter question is still an open issue which has not been fully addressed so far. Payment will be made in cash at the end of this session and it will be done in such a way that no other participant will know how much you have earned
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