The Effect of Stakes in Distribution Experiments

Jeffrey Carpenter (), Eric A. Verhoogen () and Stephen V. Burks

Middlebury College Working Paper Series from Middlebury College, Department of Economics

Abstract: We replicate previous results showing that stakes do not affect offers in the Ultimatum Game and show that stakes also have no effect on allocations in the Dictator Game. Both results are robust to the inclusion of demographic factors.

Keywords: ultimatum game; dictator game; stakes; fairness; altruism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-12
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