发展经济学研讨会 

【总第34期】

 
【时间】 5月20日，星期五，12:00—14:00
【地点】：明德商学楼0201教室
【主题】：The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Field Experiment on Charitable Contribution by Chinese Prison Inmates 
 
【主讲人】：梁平汉 (西南财经大学)
 
【摘要】：This paper experimentally studies the responses to pro-social incentives in an ordinary working environment. We conduct a field experiment in a Chinese prison and introduce real-effort charitable contribution schemes into the inmates’ existing working environment. The main treatment variable is the social relations between the inmates and the beneficiary. We find that during the five-day experiment, the pro-social incentives lead to a 12%--19% rise in productivity. However, the response in general is stronger for prison inmates with high initial productivity, consistent with the relationship between the initial productivity and the cooperative attitudes. We also document that social relations affect the response to pro-social incentives in subtle way, closer relations with the beneficiary might not be associated with larger contribution. This might be explained by the negative group identity associated with the prison inmates.
 
【报告人简介】

梁 平汉，西南财经大学经济与管理研究院副教授，博士生导师。研究领域包括博弈论，政治经济学，实验经济学。好读书不求甚解，每有会意，欣然不忘食。常著文 章自娱，见于Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Comparative Economics, Review of Development Economics, 《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《世界经济》、《经济学季刊》等期刊。曾获霍英东基金会高等院校青年教师奖、四川省学术和技术带头人后备人选等表彰，是 European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Industrial Organizations, Public Choice, 《管理世界》、《世界经济》、《中国工业经济》等期刊的匿名审稿人。