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| Title: | | Voting on a sharing norm in a dictator game  |
| Authors: | | Vanberg, Christoph |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2007,036 |
| Abstract: | | I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a nonbinding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a dictator game. In a baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a voting treatment, subjects are first placed behind a veil of ignorance and vote on the amount that those chosen to be dictators should give. The outcome of the vote is referred to as a non-binding agreement. The results show that a norm established in this fashion does not induce more fairness on the part of those subsequently chosen to be dictators. In fact, dictators were significantly more likely to offer nothing under the treatment. I outline a simple model to account for this crowding out effect of a norm that may demand too much of some subjects. |
| Subjects: | | Dictator game communication voting promises agreements behavioral economics guilt aversion reciprocity fairness obligations |
| JEL: | | C91 C92 D63 D64 D70 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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