The effect of stakes in distribution experiments

Jeffrey Carpenter; Eric Verhoogen; Stephen Burks

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2004.08.007

The effect of stakes in distribution experiments

Jeffrey Carpenter, Eric Verhoogen, Stephen Burks

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Abstract

We replicate previous results showing that stakes do not affect offers in the ultimatum game (UG) and show that stakes also have no effect on allocations in the dictator game (DG). Both results are robust to the inclusion of demographic factors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	393-398
Number of pages	6
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	86
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2004.08.007
State	Published - Mar 2005

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Funding Information:
We thank Julia Assael and Marla Weinstein for research assistance, Laura Burks for data assistance, and the MacArthur Foundation for financial support. In addition, Carpenter acknowledges the National Science Foundation (SES-CAREER 0092953).

Keywords

Altruism
Dictator game
Endowment effect
Fairness
Stakes
Ultimatum game

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