scholarly journals Social norms and economic incentives in firms

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Huck ◽  
Dorothea Kübler ◽  
Jörgen Weibull
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Economic Incentives

scholarly journals Promoting Recycling: Private Values, Social Norms, and Economic Incentives

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Kip Viscusi ◽  
Joel Huber ◽  
Jason Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Personal Norms ◽  
Private Values ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Recycling Behavior

Evidence from a nationally representative sample of households illuminates the determinants of recycling behavior for plastic water bottles. Private values of the environment are influential in promoting recycling, as are personal norms for pro-environmental behavior. However, social norms with respect to the assessment of the household's recycling behaviors by others have little independent effect. Particularly influential are policies that create economic incentives to promote recycling either through state recycling laws that reduce the time and inconvenience costs of recycling or through bottle deposits. Effective policies can have a discontinuous effect at the individual level, transforming non-recyclers into avid recyclers.

scholarly journals Economic Incentives and Social Norms Can Lead Actors to Prosocial Behavior: An Evidence-Based Framework and Findings

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Angbonon E. Kamalan
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Loan Repayment ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Probit Method ◽  
Fractional Method

<p><em>This article attempts a search for economic, sociological and even psychological answers about the foundations of individual’s prosocial behavior with a focus on economic incentives and social norms. First, we present an evidence-based approach of individual’s prosocial behavior using the justification and the economies of worth of Boltanski and Thevenot (2006). After that, we analyze a prosocial behavior applied to the process of maturity repayment of individual loans. We propose two different methods to check the theoretical propositions: logit and probit method in one hand and fractional method of Papke and Wooldridge (1996) in other hand. The logit and probit method are estimated in the aim of better understanding of the influencing factors of the maturity repayment behavior of borrowers. Estimation of fractional method helps to learn about the probability of delinquency in loan repayment. The results attest the theoretical propositions.</em></p>

scholarly journals Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Huck ◽  
Dorothea F. Kübler ◽  
Jorgen W. Weibull
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Economic Incentives

scholarly journals The right incentives enable ocean sustainability successes and provide hope for the future

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (51) ◽  
pp. 14507-14514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Lubchenco ◽  
Elizabeth B. Cerny-Chipman ◽  
Jessica N. Reimer ◽  
Simon A. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Virtuous Cycle ◽  
The Right

Healthy ocean ecosystems are needed to sustain people and livelihoods and to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Using the ocean sustainably requires overcoming many formidable challenges: overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, and pollution. Despite gloomy forecasts, there is reason for hope. New tools, practices, and partnerships are beginning to transform local fisheries, biodiversity conservation, and marine spatial planning. The challenge is to bring them to a global scale. We dissect recent successes using a complex adaptive-systems (CAS) framework, which acknowledges the interconnectedness of social and ecological systems. Understanding how policies and practices change the feedbacks in CASs by altering the behavior of different system components is critical for building robust, sustainable states with favorable emergent properties. Our review reveals that altering incentives—either economic or social norms, or both—can achieve positive outcomes. For example, introduction of well-designed rights-based or secure-access fisheries and ecosystem service accounting shifts economic incentives to align conservation and economic benefits. Modifying social norms can create conditions that incentivize a company, country, or individual to fish sustainably, curb illegal fishing, or create large marine reserves as steps to enhance reputation or self-image. In each example, the feedbacks between individual actors and emergent system properties were altered, triggering a transition from a vicious to a virtuous cycle. We suggest that evaluating conservation tools by their ability to align incentives of actors with broader goals of sustainability is an underused approach that can provide a pathway toward scaling sustainability successes. In short, getting incentives right matters.

scholarly journals Social Norms and Economic Incentives in the Welfare State

1999 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Lindbeck ◽  
S. Nyberg ◽  
J. W. Weibull
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
The Welfare State
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