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| Title: | The Role of Role Uncertainty in Modified Dictator Games |
| Authors: | Iriberri, Nagore
Rey-Biel, Pedro |
| Other authors: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa |
| Subjects: | Role uncertainty, role reversal, interdependent preferences, social welfare, maximizing, inequity aversion, mixture-of-types models, strategy method, experiments, LeeX |
| Creation Date: | May-2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1147 |
| Abstract: | We compare behavior in modified dictator games with and without role uncertainty. Costly surplus creating actions are most frequent with role uncertainty while selfish behavior is most frequent without role uncertainty. A classification of subjects into four different types of preferences (Selfish, Social Welfare maximizing, Inequity Averse and Competitive) shows that role uncertainty overestimates (underestimates) the prevalence of Social Welfare maximizing (Selfish and Inequity Averse) preferences in the subject population. Our results have important methodological implications for experiments used to measure the prevalence of interdependent preferences. |
| Appears in Collections: | Economics and Business Working Papers Series
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