Oleg, Korenok; Millner, Edward L.; Razzolini, Laura - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2013
We show that, if giving is equivalent to not taking, impure altruism could account for List's (2007) finding that the payoff to recipients in a dictator game decreases when the dictator has the option to take. We examine behavior in dictator games with different taking options but equivalent...