Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252030 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9513
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Do groups and individuals behave differently in dictator games with varying deservingness of the recipient? Does the involvement in group-decision making affect the decisions of group members in subsequent individual decisions? We address these questions using a controlled dictator-game experiment and find the following main results. First, groups and individuals are not different w.r.t. their dictator-game decisions and recipient deservingness does not have a different effect on groups than on individuals. Second, participants who were previously part of a group decision process are more generous in a subsequent individual-level decision than participants who previously made individual decisions. We exploit the chat protocols of group discussions to shed light on the mechanism behind this result. Consistent with moral balancing, we show that the effect of group-decision making on subsequent individual decisions is driven by subjects who intent to make good for the initial group decision.
Subjects: 
group-decision making
dictator game
recipient deservingness
moral balancing
JEL: 
C91
C92
D91
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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