TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jakiela,Pamela
AU  - Miguel,Edward
AU  - Velde,Vera L. te
TI  - You've Earned It: Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16449
PY  - 2010
Y2  - October 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16449
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16449.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Pamela Jakiela
Department of Economics
Washington University
St, Louis MO
E-Mail: pjakiela@gmail.com

Edward Miguel
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
530 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 510/642-7162
Fax: 510/642-6615
E-Mail: emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu

Vera teVelde
508-1 Evans Hall, #3880
Dept of Economics, University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
E-Mail: vtevelde@econ.berkeley.edu
AB  - We combine data from a field experiment and a laboratory experiment to measure the causal impact of human capital on respect for earned property rights, a component of social preferences with important implications for economic growth and development. We find that higher academic achievement reduces the willingness of young Kenyan women to appropriate others' labor income, and shifts players toward a 50-50 split norm in the dictator game. This study demonstrates that education may have long-run impacts on social preferences, norms and institutions beyond the human capital directly produced. It also shows that randomized field experiments can be successfully combined with laboratory experiment data to measure causal impacts on individual values, norms, and preferences which cannot be readily captured in survey data.
ER  -