Social Preferences: Some Thoughts from the Field
回顾了测量社会偏好的经济学文献,将支持者的主张分为三类:数据支持、数据不支持以及不确定,并指出需要进一步的理论与实证研究。
This review steps back from the burgeoning economics literature on measuring social preferences and considers more carefully the empirical evidence from the lab and the field. I place the claims from the ardent supporters of the literature into three bins: one for claims that are supported by the data upon closer scrutiny, one for claims that are not supported by the data upon closer scrutiny, and one for claims that may or may not be true. The third set of claims highlights important theoretical and empirical investigations that need to be done to further our understanding of the nature and import of social preferences.