The role of personal involvement and responsibility in dictatorial allocations: a classroom investigation
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31482Metadata
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Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica
Materia
Fairness Dictator game Moral cost
Date
2005Referencia bibliográfica
Brañas-Garza, P.; Durán, M.A.; Espinosa, M.P. The role of personal involvement and responsibility in dictatorial allocations: a classroom investigation. Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2005). (The Papers; 05/21). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31482]
Sponsorship
María Paz Espinosa acknowledges Financial aid from UPV and MCT (BEC2003-02084); Pablo Brañas-Garza from Fundación Ramón Areces (2005-07) and DGCYT (SEJ2004-07554/ECON).Abstract
This paper explores new 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.