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Time as a Medium of Reward in Three Social Preference Experiments

Noussair, Charles; Stoop, J.T.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

dictator game, the ultimatum game and the trust game. All subjects in a session earn the same participation fee, but their … split of the waiting time. In the trust game, there is substantial trust and reciprocity. Overall, social preferences are … evident in time allocation decisions. Received laboratory results from dictator, ultimatum, and trust games are robust to the …

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From the lab to the field: envelopes, dictators and manners

Stoop, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro-social behavior. This paper builds a bridge from the...

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Dictating the risk – experimental evidence on giving in risky environments

Brock, J. Michelle; Lange, Andreas; Ozbay, Erkut Y. - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2011

We study if and how social preferences extend to risky environments. By providing experimental evidence on different versions of “dictator games” with risky outcomes, we establish that social preferences of players who give in standard dictator games cannot be described solely by concerns...

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Organisational structure, communication and group ethics

Ellman, Matthew; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

This paper investigates experimentally how organisational decision processes affect the moral motivations of actors inside a firm that must forego profits to reduce harming a third party. In a "vertical" treatment, one insider unilaterally sets the harm-reduction strategy; the other can only...

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Estimation of the House Money Effect Using Hurdle Models

Engel, Christoph; Moffat, Peter G. - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2012

Evidence from an experiment investigating the “house money effect” in the context of a public goods game is reconsidered. Analysis is performed within the framework of the panel hurdle model, in which subjects are assumed to be one of two types: free-riders, and potential contributors. The...

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Expected Behavior and Strategic Sophistication in the Dictator Game

Rodriguez-Lara, Ismael; Brañas-Garza, Pablo - Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar Comportament … - 2012

This paper provides novel results for the extensive literature on dictator games: recipients do not expect dictators to behave selfishly, but instead expect the equal split division. The predictions made by dictators are notably different: 45% predicted the zero contribution and 40% the equal...

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Giving in Dictator Games - Experimenter Demand Effect or Preference over the Rules of the Game?

Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010

Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a largescale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, oneshot allocation tasks, allowing us...

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Altruism and fairness in experimental decisions

Kohler, Stefan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 1, pp. 101-109

Experimental evidence from dictator games and simple choice situations indicates concerns for fairness and social welfare in human decision making. At the same time, models of inequality averse agents fail to explain the experimental data of individuals who reduce their payoff below a fair split...

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Fairness as a constraint on reciprocity: Playing simultaneously as dictator and trustee

Nicholas, Aaron - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 2, pp. 211-221

The dictator and trust games are two common games used to identify the existence of social preferences. However, in … dictator game and as a trustee in a trust game simultaneously. The results indicate that when the recipient in the dictator … make transfers as a dictator may completely crowd-out any monetary returns to trust. …

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