Robert Shupp
Biographic Data
| ID | 4514030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Shupp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Shupp |
| SIGNATURE | SHUPP R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5332-1727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rural US residents recognize anxiety better than urbanites and suburbanites but hold similar stigma
PURPOSE: Recognizing signs of psychological distress is a critical first step in assisting people who are struggling with poor mental health to access help. However, community-level factors that impact recognition and stigma are underexplored. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between rurality, other community-level variables, and individual variables with regard to the recognition and stigma of anxiety. METHODS: We use…
The grower-trader relationship: Experiments with coffee value chain actors in Uganda
In this study, we explore the nature of the relationship between smallholder growers and local traders in the coffee value chain in Eastern Uganda. Analysing the results of two lab-in-the-field experiments (trust and dictator games), we highlight the complex relationship between these two value chain actors. We develop three competing hypotheses: (1) coffee growers will send more to fellow growers than local traders due to social identity and fai…
Productivity Shocks and Repayment Behavior in Rural Credit Markets: A Framed Field Experiment
Improving rural credit markets requires a good understanding of the root causes of market failures and taking necessary steps to address them. This paper investigates the role of productivity shocks in borrowers repayment choices. Using a framed field experiment that simulated a repeated interaction in an input credit market, the analysis finds strong evidence that adverse productivity shocks lead to higher default, even when they do not induce n…
Recognition and stigma of prescription drug abuse disorder: Personal and community determinants
In light of the continued risks that individuals with PDA behaviors face in potentially transitioning to illicit opioid use, the findings of this survey suggested a continued need for public education and outreach. Of particular note is the perspective of those who have self-identified with the condition, as this population faces the largest risks of adverse health outcomes from illicit drug use within the survey respondents
The effects of voice with(out) punishment: Public goods provision and rule compliance
We investigate the effect of comment-based participation on public goods provision. • Comments are tested with and without exogenous sanctioning. • Comments increase public goods provision in the short-run but not in the longer-run. • Comments with sanctioning generate the highest contributions to the public good. • Rule-makers who receive comments choose significantly higher contribution rules. We investigate the effect of voice exercised throug…
Eliciting Risk Attitudes in the Field: Surveys or Experimental Methods? An Empirical Comparison in Rural Niger
We compare several risk preference elicitation methods – including incentivised, non-incentivised, and framed methods as well as a traditional Likert survey question – in a developing country and empirically test how well consequent measures of risk attitudes predict risk taking behaviour. We find that Likert scale and non-incentivised framed survey questions are not sufficient substitutes for costlier incentivised methods in rural Niger. Instead…
Trust and Patience after a Tornado
This study examines how individuals’ trust levels and patience are affected by a tornado event. Affected and unaffected people were surveyed after a 2013 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, that resulted in 24 fatalities. Findings suggest that those who self-identified as affected became more trusting in general as well as more trusting of police and fire authorities. Affected homeowners also exhibited less patience than their unaffected counterparts. Th…
Social Norms, Behavioral Payment Programs, and Cooperative Behaviors: Toward a Theory of Financial Incentives in Normative Systems
Descriptive and injunctive social norms communicated among groups are known to influence behavior, yet little is known about how they evolve over time and how financial incentives influence norms. This article tests hypotheses about the ways in which monetary incentives can disrupt normative impact while facilitating cooperative behavior. The results of a public goods experiment indicate that the presence of a financial incentive for behavior can…
Resource allocation contests: Experimental evidence
The holdout problem and urban sprawl: Experimental evidence
Risk Preference Differentials of Small Groups and Individuals
This research compares lottery valuation decisions made by individuals with similar decisions made by small groups. There is an extensive social psychology literature addressing group versus individual decision making but few studies explore this issue in economic contexts with cash rewards. Willingness-to-pay data elicited from independent samples of individuals and three-person groups in a repeated-measures experimental design reveal that: the …
Cooperation in PD Games: Fear, Greed, and History of Play
Cooperation in PD Games: Fear, Greed, and History of Play
Social Norms, Behavioral Payment Programs, and Cooperative Behaviors: Toward a Theory of Financial Incentives in Normative Systems
Descriptive and injunctive social norms communicated among groups are known to influence behavior, yet little is known about how they evolve over time and how financial incentives influence norms. This article tests hypotheses about the ways in which monetary incentives can disrupt normative impact while facilitating cooperative behavior. The results of a public goods experiment indicate that the presence of a financial incentive for behavior can…
Risk Preference Differentials of Small Groups and Individuals
This research compares lottery valuation decisions made by individuals with similar decisions made by small groups. There is an extensive social psychology literature addressing group versus individual decision making but few studies explore this issue in economic contexts with cash rewards. Willingness-to-pay data elicited from independent samples of individuals and three-person groups in a repeated-measures experimental design reveal that: the …
The holdout problem and urban sprawl: Experimental evidence
Resource allocation contests: Experimental evidence
The effects of voice with(out) punishment: Public goods provision and rule compliance
We investigate the effect of comment-based participation on public goods provision. • Comments are tested with and without exogenous sanctioning. • Comments increase public goods provision in the short-run but not in the longer-run. • Comments with sanctioning generate the highest contributions to the public good. • Rule-makers who receive comments choose significantly higher contribution rules. We investigate the effect of voice exercised throug…
Cooperation in PD Games: Fear, Greed, and History of Play
Risk Preference Differentials of Small Groups and Individuals
This research compares lottery valuation decisions made by individuals with similar decisions made by small groups. There is an extensive social psychology literature addressing group versus individual decision making but few studies explore this issue in economic contexts with cash rewards. Willingness-to-pay data elicited from independent samples of individuals and three-person groups in a repeated-measures experimental design reveal that: the …
The holdout problem and urban sprawl: Experimental evidence
Resource allocation contests: Experimental evidence
Trust and Patience after a Tornado
This study examines how individuals’ trust levels and patience are affected by a tornado event. Affected and unaffected people were surveyed after a 2013 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, that resulted in 24 fatalities. Findings suggest that those who self-identified as affected became more trusting in general as well as more trusting of police and fire authorities. Affected homeowners also exhibited less patience than their unaffected counterparts. Th…
Social Norms, Behavioral Payment Programs, and Cooperative Behaviors: Toward a Theory of Financial Incentives in Normative Systems
Descriptive and injunctive social norms communicated among groups are known to influence behavior, yet little is known about how they evolve over time and how financial incentives influence norms. This article tests hypotheses about the ways in which monetary incentives can disrupt normative impact while facilitating cooperative behavior. The results of a public goods experiment indicate that the presence of a financial incentive for behavior can…
Eliciting Risk Attitudes in the Field: Surveys or Experimental Methods? An Empirical Comparison in Rural Niger
We compare several risk preference elicitation methods – including incentivised, non-incentivised, and framed methods as well as a traditional Likert survey question – in a developing country and empirically test how well consequent measures of risk attitudes predict risk taking behaviour. We find that Likert scale and non-incentivised framed survey questions are not sufficient substitutes for costlier incentivised methods in rural Niger. Instead…
The effects of voice with(out) punishment: Public goods provision and rule compliance
We investigate the effect of comment-based participation on public goods provision. • Comments are tested with and without exogenous sanctioning. • Comments increase public goods provision in the short-run but not in the longer-run. • Comments with sanctioning generate the highest contributions to the public good. • Rule-makers who receive comments choose significantly higher contribution rules. We investigate the effect of voice exercised throug…
Productivity Shocks and Repayment Behavior in Rural Credit Markets: A Framed Field Experiment
Improving rural credit markets requires a good understanding of the root causes of market failures and taking necessary steps to address them. This paper investigates the role of productivity shocks in borrowers repayment choices. Using a framed field experiment that simulated a repeated interaction in an input credit market, the analysis finds strong evidence that adverse productivity shocks lead to higher default, even when they do not induce n…
Recognition and stigma of prescription drug abuse disorder: Personal and community determinants
In light of the continued risks that individuals with PDA behaviors face in potentially transitioning to illicit opioid use, the findings of this survey suggested a continued need for public education and outreach. Of particular note is the perspective of those who have self-identified with the condition, as this population faces the largest risks of adverse health outcomes from illicit drug use within the survey respondents
The grower-trader relationship: Experiments with coffee value chain actors in Uganda
In this study, we explore the nature of the relationship between smallholder growers and local traders in the coffee value chain in Eastern Uganda. Analysing the results of two lab-in-the-field experiments (trust and dictator games), we highlight the complex relationship between these two value chain actors. We develop three competing hypotheses: (1) coffee growers will send more to fellow growers than local traders due to social identity and fai…
Rural US residents recognize anxiety better than urbanites and suburbanites but hold similar stigma
PURPOSE: Recognizing signs of psychological distress is a critical first step in assisting people who are struggling with poor mental health to access help. However, community-level factors that impact recognition and stigma are underexplored. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between rurality, other community-level variables, and individual variables with regard to the recognition and stigma of anxiety. METHODS: We use…
Economics (9 works) · Microeconomics (8 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Finance (3 works) · Incentive (3 works)