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Subtitle: combining field and lab experiments to estimate the impact of human capital on social preferences
By: Pamela Jakiela, Edward Miguel, Vera L. te Velde
Contributors: Miguel, Edward; te Velde, Vera L.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16449; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16449.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "We combine data from a field experiment and a laboratory experiment to measure the causal impact of human capital on respect for earned property rights, a component of social preferences with important implications for economic growth and development.  We find that higher academic achievement reduces the willingness of young Kenyan women to appropriate others' labor income, and shifts players toward a 50-50 split norm in the dictator game.  This study demonstrates that education may have long-run impacts on social preferences, norms and institutions beyond the human capital directly produced.  It also shows that randomized field experiments can be successfully combined with laboratory experiment data to measure causal impacts on individual values, norms, and preferences which cannot be readily captured in survey data"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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