The effects of party size and dining duration on tipping behavior

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2025.102386

Erik Haugom, Christer Thrane

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Abstract

In this study, we propose a theoretical framework to explain how party size and dining duration affect tipping behavior. The framework suggests that both the party size and the dining duration effects are hill-shaped and thus should be modeled nonlinearly. We use data from a large-scale transaction database (n > 800,000) for a Norwegian restaurant chain to test the proposed effects. We also merge these data with information on waiter characteristics and customer ratings for the 60 pizza restaurants in the sample. In line with the theoretical propositions, the results show that party size and dining duration affect tipping behavior nonlinearly. The association between both variables and tipping is mostly inversely U-shaped. Yet both effects are contingent on each other, the size of the bill, customer ratings, and the presence of alcohol consumption.

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聚会规模和用餐时间对付小费行为的影响

在这项研究中，我们提出了一个理论框架来解释聚会规模和用餐时间如何影响小费行为。该框架表明，聚会规模和用餐时间的影响都是小山形的，因此应该非线性建模。我们使用来自大型事务数据库的数据(n >；为一家挪威连锁餐厅测试提议的效果。我们还将这些数据与样本中60家披萨店的服务员特征和顾客评级信息合并在一起。结果表明，宴会规模和用餐时间对小费行为的影响是非线性的。这两个变量和小费之间的关系大多呈倒u型。然而，这两种影响都是相互依存的：账单的大小、顾客的评分和酒精消费的存在。

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来源期刊

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

113

审稿时长

83 days

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