TY - JOUR
T1 - CONSUMPTION‐LEISURE TRADEOFFS IN PIGEONS
T2 - EFFECTS OF CHANGING MARGINAL WAGE RATES BY VARYING AMOUNT OF REINFORCEMENT
AU - Green, Leonard
AU - Kagel, John H.
AU - Battalio, Raymond C.
PY - 1987/1
Y1 - 1987/1
N2 - Pigeons' rates of responding and food reinforcement under simple random‐ratio schedules were compared with those obtained under comparable ratio schedules in which free food deliveries were added, but the duration of each food delivery was halved. These ratio‐with‐free‐food schedules were constructed so that, were the pigeon to maintain the same rate of responding as it had under the simple ratio schedule, total food obtained (earned plus free) would remain unchanged. However, any reduction in responding would reduce total food consumption below that under the simple ratio schedule. These “compensated wage decreases” led to decreases in responding and decreases in food consumption, as predicted by an economic model of labor supply. Moreover, the reductions in responding increased as the ratio value increased (i.e., as wage rates decreased). Pigeons, therefore, substituted leisure for consumption. The relationship between these procedures and negative‐income‐tax programs is noted. 1987 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
AB - Pigeons' rates of responding and food reinforcement under simple random‐ratio schedules were compared with those obtained under comparable ratio schedules in which free food deliveries were added, but the duration of each food delivery was halved. These ratio‐with‐free‐food schedules were constructed so that, were the pigeon to maintain the same rate of responding as it had under the simple ratio schedule, total food obtained (earned plus free) would remain unchanged. However, any reduction in responding would reduce total food consumption below that under the simple ratio schedule. These “compensated wage decreases” led to decreases in responding and decreases in food consumption, as predicted by an economic model of labor supply. Moreover, the reductions in responding increased as the ratio value increased (i.e., as wage rates decreased). Pigeons, therefore, substituted leisure for consumption. The relationship between these procedures and negative‐income‐tax programs is noted. 1987 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
KW - amount of reinforcement
KW - economics
KW - key peck
KW - labor supply
KW - pigeons
KW - ratio schedules
KW - substitution effects
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84985155870
U2 - 10.1901/jeab.1987.47-17
DO - 10.1901/jeab.1987.47-17
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84985155870
SN - 0022-5002
VL - 47
SP - 17
EP - 28
JO - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
JF - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
IS - 1
ER -