Ownership Effects in Dictator Games: Evidence from an Experimental Study

Cuong Nguyen and Linh Hoang Vu

No 1032, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

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 behaviors if they have more time between receiving and sharing money. When the response time was 2 hours, the sharing behavior of dictators was similar to sharing behavior in a standard game without time delay. However, if the dictators kept their received money for a week, they were remarkably less likely to share the money. 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
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp, nep-gth and nep-ore
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