A reproduction and replication of Engel’s meta-study of dictator game experiments

Le Zhang and Andreas Ortmann

No 2012-44, Discussion Papers from School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

Abstract: In this paper, we reproduce Engel’s (2011) meta-study of dictator game experiments using his data, and then replicate it using our own data. We find that Engel’s (2011) meta-study of dictator game experiments is quite robust. We show that meta-analyses of dictator game experiments depend to an extent on the definition of independent variables and consistent coding of studies. This insight pertains in particular to the take-option, which has produced important questions (Bardsley 2008; List 2007; Guala and Mittone 2010) about the epistemological inferences one can draw from dictator game experiments.

Keywords: dictator game experiments; meta-analysis; meta-regression; reproduction; replication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C24 C91 D03 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2012-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-gth and nep-hpe
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