Do Dictator Games Measure Altruism?

This note paper considers briefly whether dictator games are a good tool to measure altruism. The answer is negative: behavior in dictator games is seriously confounded by what I shall label experimenter demand effects. Section 2 briefly defines dictator games and reviews some of its purported enduring appeal. Section 3 criticizes dictator games as a measure of altruism and concludes by considering whether a role for dictator games can still be found that may be of relevance for the economics of philanthropy

Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Zizzo, Daniel John
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Altruismus \| Altruism \| Spieltheorie \| Game theory \| Diktatur \| Dictatorship \| Experiment \| Messung \| Measurement \| Ultimatumspiel \| Ultimatum game

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