Biography
My research is concerned with the measurement of social preferences of humans. I do this by means of lab experiments where (usually) students are playing a game behind a computer. These games gather insights into the social preferences of the participants. Besides lab experiments, I conduct field experiments in a 'natural environment', with non-student participants. The insights gathered from these experiments show to what degree the social preferences measured in the lab carry over the the real world.
Besides research on social preferences, I study how to design optimal labour contracts. This means that we study when employees exert most effort for their boss. One can think of a contract which pays on a per-unit base, or a scheme in which only the most productive employee receives money. The way in which I study these incentives is by means of lab experiments and field experiments.
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Work
- Romain Espinosa & Jan Stoop (2021) - Do people really want to be informed? Ex-ante evaluations of information-campaign effectiveness - Experimental Economics, 24 (4), 1131-1155 - doi: 10.1007/s10683-020-09692-6 - [link]
- James Andreoni, Nikos Nikiforakis & Jan Stoop (2021) - Higher socioeconomic status does not predict decreased prosocial behavior in a field experiment - Nature Communications, 12 (1), 4266 - doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24519-5 - [link]
- JA List, DP van Soest, Jan Stoop & H Zhou (2020) - On The Role of Group Size in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from Lab and Field Experiments - Management Science, 66 (10), 4359-4919 - doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3441 - [link]
- J Potters & Jan Stoop (2016) - Do cheaters in the lab also cheat in the field? - European Economic Review, 87, 26-33 - doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.03.004
- DP Soest, van, Jan Stoop & J Vyrastekova (2016) - Towards a delineation of the circumstances in which cooperation can be sustained in environmental and resource problems - Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 77 (May), 1-13 - doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2015.12.004
- CN (Charles) Noussair, DP Soest, van & Jan Stoop (2015) - Cooperation in a Dynamic Fishing Game: A Framed Field Experiment (AER: Papers and Proceedings) - The American Economic Review, 105 (5), 1-7 - doi: 10.1257/aer.p20151018
- C Noussair, DP Soest, van & Jan Stoop (2014) - Punishment, reward, and cooperation in a framed field experiment - Social Choice and Welfare, 45 (3), 537-559 - doi: 10.1007/s00355-014-0841-8 - [link]
- C Noussair & Jan Stoop (2014) - Time as a medium of reward in three social preference experiments - Experimental Economics, 18 (3), 442-456 - doi: 10.1007/s10683-014-9415-y
- Jan Stoop (2013) - From the lab to the field: envelopes, dictators and manners - Experimental Economics, 17 (2), 304-313 - doi: 10.1007/s10683-013-9368-6 - [link]
- Jan Stoop, DP Soest, van & J Vyrastekova (2013) - A tale of two carrots: the effectiveness of multiple reward stages in a common pool resource game
