Ownership effects in dictator games: Evidence from an experimental study

Cuong Nguyen and Linh Hoang Vu

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 216, issue C

Abstract: In this study, we tested the effect of time delays on sharing behavior. We conducted a dictator game to examine whether dictators change their sharing behavior if they have more time between receiving and sharing money. When the response time was 2 h, the sharing behavior of dictators was similar to sharing behavior in a standard game without time delay. However, if dictators kept the money they received for a week, they were remarkably less likely to share it. This finding provides suggestive evidence of the ownership effect in sharing behavior.

Keywords: Dictator games; Endowment; Experiment; Time delay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C70 D63 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110592

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