Social information ‘nudges’: an experiment with multiple group references
Hargreaves-Heap, Shaun, Ramalingam, Abhijit and Rojo Arjona, David (2017) Social information ‘nudges’: an experiment with multiple group references. Southern Economic Journal, 84 (1). 348–365. ISSN 0038-4038
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Abstract
Social information ‘nudges’ concerning how others perform typically boost individual performances in experiments with one group reference point. However, in many natural settings, sometimes due to policy, there are several such group reference points. We address the complications that such multiple group social information might introduce through an experiment. The boost to average performance is significant and comparable to the one group case. Between-group inequality does not change. Individual inequality falls, however, because the boost is largest among the pre-‘nudge’ very poor performers. Finally, the boost to average performance is highest when individuals freely choose their group affiliations.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics University of East Anglia > Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Media@uea University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Media@uea University of East Anglia > Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied and Financial Economics University of East Anglia > Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Experimental Economics |
Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2017 01:46 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2018 13:20 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62736 |
DOI: | 10.1002/soej.12210 |
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