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Do you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis

dc.contributor.authorGrosskopf, B
dc.contributor.authorPearce, G
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-01T09:50:09Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-21
dc.description.abstractWe 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 mid–journey and asked for a portion of the journey for free. In a 2×2 between–subject design we vary the length of the journey and whether or not 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) that 27% of drivers complete the journey. Evidence of out–group negativity against black testers is also reported. In order to link our empirical analysis to behavioural 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 shed further light on how discrimination can manifest itself within our preferences.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 21 May 2020en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1287/mnsc.2019.3483
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/38183
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherINFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences)en_GB
dc.rights© 2020 The Author(s). Open Access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work, but you must attribute this work as “Management Science. Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3483, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.”
dc.titleDo you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxisen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2019-08-01T09:50:09Z
dc.identifier.issn0025-1909
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from INFORMS via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalManagement Scienceen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-07-26
rioxxterms.versionVoRen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-07-26
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2019-07-31T23:49:12Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2020-06-12T13:22:13Z
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© 2020 The Author(s). Open Access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work, but you must attribute this work as “Management Science. Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3483, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.”
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