Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf

Projective Paternalism

“…A second studies how people feel about being in situations where others can influence or constrain their choices (Fehr, Herz and Wilkening, 2013;Bartling, Fehr and Herz, 2014;Kataria, Levati and Uhl, 2014;Lübbecke and Schnedler, 2018). 5 A third studies social disapproval of ostensibly repugnant transactions (Roth, 2007), such as paid organ donation (Basu, 2003(Basu, , 2007Leider and Roth, 2010;Macis, 2015a,b, 2016;Ambuehl, 2017;Ambuehl and Ockenfels, 2017;Clemens, 2017;Exley and Kessler, 2017). 6 A fourth explores how people make surrogate choices for others in settings where the surrogate cannot leave the affected individual with flexibility (see Ifcher and Zarghamee, 2018, for a review).…”

For They Know Not What They Do: Selection Through Incentives When Information is Costly

“…Second, we contribute to the burgeoning literature on the moral constraints on markets (Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler, 1986;Basu, 2003Basu, , 2007Roth, 2007;Leider and Roth, 2010;Ambuehl, Niederle, and Roth, 2015;Elias, Lacetera, and Macis, 2015a,b;Elias, Lacetera, and Macis, ming;Ambuehl, 2017;Clemens, 2017;Exley and Kessler, 2017). While we take no normative stance, a significant proportion of both professional ethicists (Faden and Beauchamp, 1986;Satz, 2010;Kanbur, 2004) and survey participants from the general population (Ambuehl and Ockenfels, 2017) insist that the decision to participate in such transactions should adhere to the principles of informed consent (DHEW 1978, The Belmont Report).…”