Disclosing personal information on behalf of others: An experimental study

IF 5.2 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102401

Minda Wang , Jianbiao Li , Xiaofei Niu , Wenhua Wang

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Abstract

People often decide whether to risk the privacy of others on behalf of others, and the benefit of disclosing personal information could be in the form of money or time. Do people differ in their willingness to disclose their own personal information and to disclose the personal information of others, and what is the stated price of disclosure, measured in time rather than money? In controlled experiments, we elicit participants' willingness to disclose others' personal information when they make these decisions for others. We also compare the monetary and time rewards for giving up privacy. The results show that participants report higher prices when they make decisions on behalf of others than when they do so for themselves, and this discrepancy is robust regardless of whether the reward is money or time. It appears that people are more concerned about the privacy of others than they are about their own privacy and demand greater compensation for disclosing personal information when the benefit of the exchange is time rather than money.

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代他人披露个人信息一项实验研究

人们通常会决定是否为了他人而冒他人隐私的风险，而披露个人信息的好处可能是金钱或时间。人们在披露自己的个人信息和披露他人的个人信息的意愿上是否有所不同？披露的价格是多少，以时间而不是金钱来衡量？在对照实验中，我们引出了参与者在为他人做决定时透露他人个人信息的意愿。我们还比较了放弃隐私的金钱和时间回报。结果显示，当参与者代表他人做决定时，他们报告的价格要高于为自己做决定时的价格，而且无论奖励是金钱还是时间，这种差异都很明显。人们似乎更关心他人的隐私，而不是自己的隐私，当交换的好处是时间而不是金钱时，披露个人信息要求更高的补偿。

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中国经济评论 ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

10.60

自引率

4.40%

发文量

380

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