Replication data for: More Money, More Problems? Can High Pay Be Coercive and Repugnant?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sandro Ambuehl; Muriel Niederle; Alvin E. Roth

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Project Citation:

Ambuehl, Sandro, Niederle, Muriel, and Roth, Alvin E. Replication data for: More Money, More Problems? Can High Pay Be Coercive and Repugnant? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113376V1

Project Description

Summary: IRBs can disallow high incentives they deem coercive. A vignette study on MTurk concerning participation in medical trials shows that a substantial minority of subjects concurs. They think high incentives cause more regret, and that more people would be better off without the opportunity to participate. We model observers as judging the ethicality of incentives by partially using their own utility. The model predicts that payments are repugnant only to the extent that they affect the participation decision, and more so for larger transactions. Incentivizing poorer participants is more repugnant, and in-kind incentives are less repugnant than monetary incentives.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      D64 Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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