IBSS: Links Between Behavior and Attitudes Across Cultures

这个项目将专注于确定经济决策的基本属性，这是一组被研究人员称为“经济统计学”的衡量标准。该项目还将重点衡量随着时间的推移，世界各国和美国国内的经济状况，以及这些属性与民众态度和对政府程序的参与之间的关系。研究人员将进行一项激励性调查，衡量13个国家的经济状况，其中超过三次是在美国境内。被选中调查的国家包括许多不同类型的政府和经济环境，包括高度再分配的议会制民主国家、拥有大量非正式经济的联邦制度、过渡民主国家、发展中民主国家和威权国家。这些州也有不同的经济制度。通过对广泛国家的经济状况进行测量，研究人员将检验与这些基本属性与政治环境和经济表现相对应的过程相关的假设。美国国内的三次调查浪潮将跨越全国大选，以考察已知会改变民众态度的重大全国性事件如何影响生态学。该项目将提供新的衡量标准，以评估经济文化和决策的基本原理，并将促进将行为经济学与其他社会和行为科学领域联系起来的新研究模式。该项目将为开展大规模、跨国、有激励作用的调查提供新的见解，从而促进今后基于对具有代表性的人口样本的经验测试而不是基于社会科学实验室中的对象进行的研究。该项目将为博士后研究人员和研究生提供宝贵的教育和培训机会，项目成果将提供宝贵的信息和见解，帮助决策者和其他人确定实现社会理想目标的最有效方式。该项目通过NSF跨学科行为和社会科学研究(IBSS)竞赛得到支持。

This project will focus on identifying fundamental attributes of economic decision making, a set of measurements that the researchers call "econographics. The project also will focus on measuring econographics in countries throughout the world and within the U.S. over time, and as well as examining how these attributes relate to popular attitudes and participation in governmental processes. The researchers will conduct an incentivized survey that will measure econographics across thirteen countries, and over three times within the U.S. The countries selected to survey include many different types of governmental and economic environments, including parliamentary democracies with high redistribution, federal systems with a large informal economies, transitional democracies, developing democracies and authoritarian states. These states also have a variety of economic systems. Through their measurement of econographics across a broad spectrum of countries, the researchers will test hypotheses related to the processes through which these fundamental attributes correspond with the political environment and with economic performance. The three survey waves within the U.S. will straddle a national election to examine how major national events, which are known to change popular attitudes, affect econographics.This project will provide new metrics to assess fundamentals of economic culture and decision making, and it will facilitate new modes of research to link behavioral economics with other social and behavioral science fields. The project will provide new insights related to the conduct of large-scale, cross-country, incentivized surveys, thereby facilitating future research based on empirical tests on representative samples of the population rather than on subjects in a social science laboratory. The project will provide valuable education and training opportunities for post-doctoral researchers and graduate students, and project results will provide valuable information and insights to assist policy makers and others in determining the most effective ways to attain socially desirable goals. This project is supported through the NSF Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (IBSS) competition.