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100			_aLane, T., Nosenzo, D. and Sonderegger, S. _943787
245			_aLaw and norms: Empirical evidence
260			_aThe American Economic Review
300			_a113(5), May, 2023: p.1255-1293
520			_aA large theoretical literature argues laws exert a causal effect on norms, but empirical evidence remains scant. Using a novel identification strategy, we provide a compelling empirical test of this proposition. We use incentivized vignette experiments to directly measure social norms relating to actions subject to legal thresholds. Our large-scale experiments (n = 7,000) run in the United Kingdom, United States, and China show that laws can causally influence social norms. Results are robust across different samples and methods of measuring norms, and are consistent with a model of social image concerns where individuals care about the inferences others make about their underlying prosociality.- Reproduced
773			_aThe American Economic Review
906			_aLAWS
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