Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33257 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1703
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Recent bargaining experiments demonstrated an impact of anonymity and incomplete information on subjects' behavior. This has rekindled the question whether fair behavior is inspired by regard for others or is explained by external forces. To test for the importance of external pressure we compare a standard double blind dictator game to a treatment which provides no information about the source of dictator offers, and where recipients do not even know that they participate in an experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally motivated, as asserted by models of other-regarding preferences.
Subjects: 
dictator game
altruism
social preferences
JEL: 
A13
C91
D64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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