Graeme joined the Department of Economics as a Lecturer in August 2018. Prior to this he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the SFB F63 ''Credence Goods, Incentives and Behavior'' at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Exeter in 2016.
Nationality: English
Qualifications
- BSc(hons) Economics - University of Birmingham
- MSc Economics - University of Birmingham
- PhD Economics - University of Exeter
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Research interests
- Behavioural Economics
- Experimental Economics
- Discrimination
Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year
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Journal articles
Bindra PC, Pearce G (2022). The effect of priming on fraud: Evidence from a natural field experiment.
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Everett JAC, Colombatto C, Awad E, Boggio P, Bos B, Brady WJ, Chawla M, Chituc V, Chung D, Drupp MA, et al (2021). Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis.
Nat Hum Behav,
5(8), 1074-1088.
Abstract:
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis.
Trust in leaders is central to citizen compliance with public policies. One potential determinant of trust is how leaders resolve conflicts between utilitarian and non-utilitarian ethical principles in moral dilemmas. Past research suggests that utilitarian responses to dilemmas can both erode and enhance trust in leaders: sacrificing some people to save many others ('instrumental harm') reduces trust, while maximizing the welfare of everyone equally ('impartial beneficence') may increase trust. In a multi-site experiment spanning 22 countries on six continents, participants (N = 23,929) completed self-report (N = 17,591) and behavioural (N = 12,638) measures of trust in leaders who endorsed utilitarian or non-utilitarian principles in dilemmas concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Across both the self-report and behavioural measures, endorsement of instrumental harm decreased trust, while endorsement of impartial beneficence increased trust. These results show how support for different ethical principles can impact trust in leaders, and inform effective public communication during times of global crisis. PROTOCOL REGISTRATION STATEMENT: the Stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 13 November 2020. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13247315.v1.
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Grosskopf B, Pearce G (2020). Do you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis.
Management ScienceAbstract:
Do you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis
Copyright: © 2020 the Author(s) We 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 midjourney and asked for a portion of the journey for free. In a 2 × 2 between-subjects design, we vary the length of the journey and whether 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) 27% of drivers complete the journey. Evidence of outgroup negativity against black testers is also reported. In order to link our empirical analysis to behavioral 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 they shed further light on how discrimination can manifest itself within our preferences.
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Grosskopf B, Pearce G, Lacomba J, Liu T, Cobo-Reyes R, Lagos F, Garcia-Quero F (2019). The development of social preferences.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization DOI.
Grosskopf B, Pearce G (2017). Discrimination in a Deprived Neighbourhood: an Artefactual Field Experiment.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization DOI.
Publications by year
2022
Bindra PC, Pearce G (2022). The effect of priming on fraud: Evidence from a natural field experiment.
ECONOMIC INQUIRY Author URL.
DOI.
2021
Everett JAC, Colombatto C, Awad E, Boggio P, Bos B, Brady WJ, Chawla M, Chituc V, Chung D, Drupp MA, et al (2021). Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis.
Nat Hum Behav,
5(8), 1074-1088.
Abstract:
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis.
Trust in leaders is central to citizen compliance with public policies. One potential determinant of trust is how leaders resolve conflicts between utilitarian and non-utilitarian ethical principles in moral dilemmas. Past research suggests that utilitarian responses to dilemmas can both erode and enhance trust in leaders: sacrificing some people to save many others ('instrumental harm') reduces trust, while maximizing the welfare of everyone equally ('impartial beneficence') may increase trust. In a multi-site experiment spanning 22 countries on six continents, participants (N = 23,929) completed self-report (N = 17,591) and behavioural (N = 12,638) measures of trust in leaders who endorsed utilitarian or non-utilitarian principles in dilemmas concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Across both the self-report and behavioural measures, endorsement of instrumental harm decreased trust, while endorsement of impartial beneficence increased trust. These results show how support for different ethical principles can impact trust in leaders, and inform effective public communication during times of global crisis. PROTOCOL REGISTRATION STATEMENT: the Stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 13 November 2020. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13247315.v1.
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Drouvelis M, Pearce G (2021). Understanding the Link between Intelligence and Lying.
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Drouvelis M, Pearce G (2021). Understanding the Link between Intelligence and Lying.
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2020
Grosskopf B, Pearce G (2020). Do you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis.
Management ScienceAbstract:
Do you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis
Copyright: © 2020 the Author(s) We 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 midjourney and asked for a portion of the journey for free. In a 2 × 2 between-subjects design, we vary the length of the journey and whether 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) 27% of drivers complete the journey. Evidence of outgroup negativity against black testers is also reported. In order to link our empirical analysis to behavioral 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 they shed further light on how discrimination can manifest itself within our preferences.
Abstract.
DOI.
2019
Grosskopf B, Pearce G, Lacomba J, Liu T, Cobo-Reyes R, Lagos F, Garcia-Quero F (2019). The development of social preferences.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization DOI.
2017
Grosskopf B, Pearce G (2017). Discrimination in a Deprived Neighbourhood: an Artefactual Field Experiment.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization DOI.