Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions

Boris van Leeuwen, Ingela Alger, Jörgen W Weibull

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Abstract

Recent theoretical work suggests that a form of Kantian morality has evolutionary foundations. To investigate the relative importance of Kantian morality and social preferences, we run laboratory experiments on strategic interaction in social dilemmas. Using a structural model, we estimate social preferences and morality concerns both at the individual level and the aggregate level. We observe considerable heterogeneity in social preferences and Kantian morality. A finite mixture analysis shows that the subject pool is well described as consisting of two types. One exhibits a combination of inequity aversion and Kantian morality, while the other combines spite and Kantian morality.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationToulouse
PublisherToulouse School of Economics
Volume19-1056
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameTSE Working Paper
Volume19-1056

Keywords

  • Social Preferences
  • Kantian morality
  • other-regarding preferences
  • Morality
  • Experiment
  • Structural estimation
  • finite mixture models

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