Mine and yours: Property rights in dictator games

Robert J. Oxoby () and John Michael Spraggon ()

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008, vol. 65, issue 3-4, pages 703-713

Abstract: We conduct experiments on earned wealth effects in dictator games. In addition to a standard treatment in which wealth was determined by the experimenter, we conduct treatments in which the dictator or the receiver earned the wealth used in the dictator game. In our baseline treatment, on average, dictators allocate receivers 20 percent. In treatments where dictators earned wealth, we observe the (theoretically predicted) zero offers to receivers. In treatments where receivers earned wealth, we observe distributions of offers in which receivers' shares exceeds 50 percent. These results emphasize the importance of property rights in determining individuals' social preferences.

Date: 2008
View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V8F ... f141d94c61ae3a2dfac2
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jeborg:v:65:y:2008:i:3-4:p:703-713

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization is edited by J. B. Rosser

More articles in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization from Elsevier
Series data maintained by Heidi Boesdal ().