Other-Regarding Preferences and Giving Decision in Risky Environments: Experimental Evidence

Mickael Beaud, Mathieu Lefebvre and Julie Rosaz ()
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Julie Rosaz: GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper investigates if and how other-regarding preferences governing giving decisions in dictator games are affected in risky environments in which the payoff of the recipient is random. We demonstrate that, whenever the risk is actuarially neutral, the donation of dictators with a purely ex post view of fairness should, in general, be affected by the riskyness of the recipient's payoff, while dictators with a purely ex ante view should not be. Our experimental data give weak empirical support to the purely ex post view of fairness.

Keywords: Ex ante and ex post views of fairness; Impure altruism; Laboratory experiments dictator games; Background risks; Other-regarding preferences; Inequality aversion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-09-11
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Working Paper: Other-Regarding Preferences and Giving Decision in Risky Environments: Experimental Evidence (2018)
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