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
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Publications by category
Journal articles
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.
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Grosskopf B, Pearce G (2017). Discrimination in a Deprived Neighbourhood: an Artefactual Field Experiment.
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Publications by year
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.
Full text.
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 Full text.
DOI.
2017
Grosskopf B, Pearce G (2017). Discrimination in a Deprived Neighbourhood: an Artefactual Field Experiment.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Full text.
DOI.
