From the lab to the field: envelopes, dictators and manners

Jan Stoop ()

Experimental Economics, 2014, vol. 17, issue 2, 304-313

Abstract: This paper reports results of a natural field experiment on the dictator game where subjects are unaware that they are participating in an experiment. Three other experiments explore, step by step, how laboratory behavior of students relates to field behavior of a general population. In all experiments, subjects display an equally high amount of pro-social behavior, whether they are students or not, participate in a laboratory or not, or are aware of their participating in an experiment or not. This paper shows that there are settings where laboratory behavior of students is predictive for field behavior of a general population. Copyright Economic Science Association 2014

Keywords: Altruism; Dictator game; Natural field experiment; External validity; Misdirected letter technique; C70; C91; C93; D63; D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s10683-013-9368-6

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