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- Title
Do You Mind Me Paying Less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis.
- Authors
Grosskopf, Brit; Pearce, Graeme
- Abstract
We present a natural field experiment designed to measure other-regarding preferences in the market for taxis. We employed testers of varying ethnicity to take a number of predetermined taxi journeys. In each case, we endowed them with only 80% of the expected fare. Testers revealed the amount they could afford to pay to the driver midjourney and asked for a portion of the journey for free. In a 2 × 2 between-subjects design, we vary the length of the journey and whether a business card is elicited. We find that (1) the majority of drivers give at least part of the journey for free, (2) giving is proportional to the length of the journey, and (3) 27% of drivers complete the journey. Evidence of outgroup negativity against black testers is also reported. In order to link our empirical analysis to behavioral theory, we estimate the parameters of a number of utility functions. The data and the structural analysis lend support to the quantitative predictions of experiments that measure other-regarding preferences, and they shed further light on how discrimination can manifest itself within our preferences. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, behavioral economics.
- Subjects
BEHAVIORAL assessment; BEHAVIORAL economics; UTILITY functions; FORECASTING; BUSINESS cards
- Publication
Management Science, 2020, Vol 66, Issue 11, p5059
- ISSN
0025-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/mnsc.2019.3483