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Poverty in Dictator Games: Awakening Solidarity

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dc.creator Brañas-Garza, Pablo
dc.date 2007-11-14T10:27:10Z
dc.date 2007-11-14T10:27:10Z
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:58:35Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:58:35Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2116
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2116
dc.description This paper investigates the effect of poverty and good intentions on dictator game giving. Previous experimental studies in which information was supplied to dictators about recipients have shown that dictator giving increases overall in this context. We develop a new design of standard informed dictator games with three main variants: 1) three recipients are used instead of one; 2) dictators are informed that their recipients are poor; 3) dictators give donations in the form of medicines instead of money. We have found that 46% of the experimental subjects (dictators) give the full amount of money (100% of the endowment) in the ‘poverty’ treatment, while in the ‘medicines’ treatment this percentage increases to 72%. Such extremely generous behavior has seldom been observed in the previous literature on dictator games.
dc.language eng
dc.relation IESA Working Paper Series
dc.relation WP 03-03
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Dictator giving
dc.subject Poverty effect
dc.subject Good intentions effect
dc.subject Medicines
dc.title Poverty in Dictator Games: Awakening Solidarity
dc.type Documento de trabajo


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