Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47296 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2008,26
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
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. Two methods for transferring funds to the recipient produce the same results as the regular dictator game. However, two methods for transferring funds to the dictator reduce her generosity significantly. Hence, the fairness ideal adopted by dictators appears to be equal share per individual in the former case (as in the regular dictator game), and equal share per transfer method in the latter case.
Subjects: 
Self-serving Bias
Experimental Economics
Dictator Game
JEL: 
C91
D63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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