Eliciting Thresholds for Interdependent Behavior

For helpful discussions, we thank Alexander Cappelen, Charles Efferson, Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gächter, Sanjeev Goyal, Mark Granovetter, John List, George Lowenstein, Marco Piovesan, Andrea Robbett, Danila Serra, Bertil Tungodden, John Wooders, Leeat Yariv, and Yves Zenou. We thank seminar participants at the University of Arizona, University of Bologna, University of Chicago, University of Cologne, Florida State University, Middlebury College, New York University, Norwegian Business School, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Verona, Yale University, and the University of Zurich. We also thank audiences at Asia Meetings of the Econometric Society (2026), Zurich Workshop in Economics & Psychology (2025), the Social Norms Workshop in Ascona, the Barcelona Summer Forum, the Dynamics of Social Change Workshop at NYU Abu Dhabi, the Norms and Behavioral Change Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, the French Experimental Economic Association meeting, the Maastricht Behavioral Economic Policy Symposium, the European Economic Association meeting (all in 2024), and the Economic Science Association World and Africa meetings (2023). The project was pre-registered at AEARCTR- 0010895. IRB approval has been obtained by the NYUAD (HRPP-2022-74) and UT Dallas (IRB-22-582) Institutional Review Boards. NN gratefully acknowledges financial support from Tamkeen under NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute Award CG005. NN and SS gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Science Foundation (grant #2242443). The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• August 15, 2024