Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51893 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5721
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient. Although brokers contributed substantial amounts, nurses contributed significantly more, on average 76 percent of their endowment. In a second part, subjects chose between a certain repetition of the experiment and a 50-50 chance of costly exit. About one third of the brokers and half of the nurses chose the exit option. While generosity was indeed higher among nurses, even when taking exits into account, the difference cannot readily be attributed to different degrees of altruism.
Subjects: 
dictator game
exit option
generosity
occupational differences
JEL: 
D10
D64
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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