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Does Generosity Generate Generosity? An Experimental Study of Reputation Effects in a Dictator Game [PDF]

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This paper explores how information about paired subject's previous action affects one's own behavior in a dictator game. The first experiment puts dictators in two environments where they can either give money to the paired player or take money away ...
Maroš Servátka
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Self-serving dictators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We provide experimental evidence of self-serving fairness ideals in a dictator game design that includes treatments where funds can be transferred in two ways to the one player and in one way to the other.
Asheim, Geir B.   +3 more
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Dictator game giving: altruism or artefact?

open access: yesExperimental Economics, 2008
AbstractExperimental dictator games have been used to explore unselfish behaviour. Evidence is presented here, however, that subjects’ generosity can be reversed by allowing them to take a partner's money. Dictator game giving therefore does not reveal concern for consequences to others existing independently of the environment, as posited in rational ...
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Vernon Smith's Insomnia and the Dawn of Economics as Experimental Science [PDF]

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This is a commentary on Vernon Smith's contributions to experimental economicsexperimental economics, auctions, public goods, markets, Vernon Smith, ultimatum game, dictator ...
Theodore C. Bergstrom
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Expected behavior in the dictator game [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Financial support from MCI SEJ2007-62081/ECON) and Excelencia—Junta (P07-SEJ-0254).
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Dictators and Their Viziers: Agency Problems in Dictatorships [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The possibility of treason by a close associate has been a nightmare of most dictators throughout history. Better informed viziers are also better able to discriminate among potential plotters, and this makes them more risky subordinates for the dictator.
Egorov, Georgy, Sonin, Konstantin
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Discrimination in the provision of social services to the poor: a field experimental study [PDF]

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We use an experimental field approach to understand better the pro-social preferences andbehavior of both individuals involved in the provision of social services (public servants) and the behavior of those potential beneficiaries, the poor. We conducted
Alejandro Gaviria   +3 more
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