Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers?

Karin Jacobsen (), Kari H. Eika, Leif Helland, Jo Lind and Karine Nyborg
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Karin Jacobsen: Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo, Postal: Department of Economics, University of Oslo, P.O Box 1095 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
Kari H. Eika: The Royal Ministry of Health and Care Services

No 09/2011, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient. Although brokers contributed substantial amounts, nurses contributed significantly more, on average 76 percent of their endowment. In a second part, subjects chose between a certain repetition of the experiment and a 50-50 chance of costly exit. About one third of the brokers and half of the nurses chose the exit option. While generosity was indeed higher among nurses, even when taking exits into account, the difference cannot readily be attributed to different degrees of altruism.

Keywords: Dictator game; exit option; generosity; occupational differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2011-04-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp, nep-hpe and nep-soc
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