The role of personal involvement and responsibility in dictatorial allocations: A classroom experiment

Pablo Brañas Garza, Miguel Duran and Maria Paz Espinosa
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No 1988-088X, DFAEII Working Papers from University of the Basque Country - Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II

Abstract: This paper explores the motivations behind giving. Specifically, it focuses on personal involvement and responsibility to explain why decision makers give positive amounts in dictatorial decisons. The experiment is designed to uncover these motivations. Subjects face the problem of a dictator.s allocation of an indivisible pie P to one of two players; indivisibility creates an extremely unequal outcome and the dictator is given a chance to correct this outcome at a cost. The willingness to pay to correct the outcome is examined under different scenarios so that we learn about several features concerning preferences.

Keywords: fairness; dictator game; moral cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-08
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