Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from Greenland

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Agneman, Gustav; Chevrot-Bianco, Esther
• 署名单位: Lund University; Goethe University Frankfurt
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueac069
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 537-581
• 关键词: evolution; preferences; inference; altruism; cheat; lies; size

摘要

The relationship between market participation and moral values is the object of a long-lasting debate in economics, yet field evidence is mainly based on cross-cultural studies. We conduct rule-breaking experiments in 13 villages across Greenland (N = 543), where stark contrasts in market participation within villages allow us to examine the relationship between market participation and moral decision-making, holding village-level factors constant. First, we document a robust positive association between market participation and moral behaviour towards anonymous others. Second, market-integrated participants display universalism in moral decision-making, whereas non-market participants make more moral decisions towards co-villagers. A battery of robustness tests confirms that the behavioural differences between market and non-market participants are not driven by socioeconomic variables, childhood background, cultural identities, kinship structure, global connectedness and exposure to religious and political institutions.