IBSS: Links Between Behavior and Attitudes Across Cultures

这个项目将侧重于确定经济决策的基本属性，研究人员称之为“经济学”的一套测量方法。该项目还将侧重于长期衡量世界各国和美国国内的经济状况，并研究这些属性与公众态度和政府进程参与之间的关系。研究人员将进行一项激励调查，测量13个国家的经济状况，并在美国境内进行三次以上的调查。选择进行调查的国家包括许多不同类型的政府和经济环境，包括高再分配的议会民主国家，拥有大量非正式经济的联邦制国家，过渡民主国家，发展中民主国家和威权国家。这些州也有各种各样的经济制度。通过对各国经济状况的测量，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。美国国内的三轮调查将在全国大选期间进行，以研究众所周知会改变民众态度的重大全国性事件如何影响经济。该项目将为评估经济文化和决策的基础提供新的指标，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。该项目将提供有关进行大规模、跨国、有奖励的调查的新见解，从而促进今后基于对人口中有代表性的样本进行经验检验的研究，而不是在社会科学实验室进行研究。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，项目结果将提供有价值的信息和见解，以帮助决策者和其他人确定实现社会理想目标的最有效方法。本项目由美国国家科学基金会跨学科行为与社会科学研究（IBSS）竞赛资助。

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.