When ignorance is bliss : information asymmetries enhance prosocial behavior in dicator games
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
Download full text from publisher
References listed on IDEAS
- Gneezy, Uri & Rustichini, Aldo, 2000.
"A Fine is a Price,"
The Journal of Legal Studies, University of Chicago Press, vol. 29(1), pages 1-17, January.
- Uri Gneezy & Aldo Rustichini, 2000. "A fine is a price," Natural Field Experiments 00258, The Field Experiments Website.
- Gary Charness & Matthew Rabin, 2002.
"Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 117(3), pages 817-869.
- Charness, Gary B & Rabin, Matthew, 2001. "Understanding Social Preferences With Simple Tests," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series qt0dc3k4m5, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara.
- Charness, Gary & Rabin, Matthew, 2001. "Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests," Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt4qz9k8vg, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
- Gary Charness & Matthew Rabin, 2003. "Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests," General Economics and Teaching 0303002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Charness, Gary & Rabin, Matthew, 2002. "Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests," Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt3d04q5sm, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
- Ernst Fehr & Klaus M. Schmidt, 1999.
"A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 114(3), pages 817-868.
- Fehr, Ernst & Schmidt, Klaus M., . "A theory of fairness, competition, and cooperation," Chapters in Economics,, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
- Ernst Fehr & Klaus M. Schmidt, "undated". "A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation," IEW - Working Papers 004, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich.
- Fehr, Ernst & Schmidt, Klaus M., 1999. "A theory of fairness, competition, and cooperation," Munich Reprints in Economics 20650, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
- Fehr, Ernst & Schmidt, Klaus M., 1998. "A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation," CEPR Discussion Papers 1812, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Brennan, Geoffrey & González, Luis G. & Güth, Werner & Levati, M. Vittoria, 2008.
"Attitudes toward private and collective risk in individual and strategic choice situations,"
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 67(1), pages 253-262, July.
- Geoffrey Brennan & Werner Güth & Luis G. Gonzalez & M. Vittoria Levati, 2005. "Attitudes toward Private and Collective Risks in Individual and Strategic Choice Situations," Papers on Strategic Interaction 2005-22, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group.
- Dirk Engelmann & Martin Strobel, 2007. "Preferences over Income Distributions," Public Finance Review, , vol. 35(2), pages 285-310, March.
- Frey, Bruno S & Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, 1997. "The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 87(4), pages 746-755, September.
- Mitzkewitz, Michael & Nagel, Rosemarie, 1993. "Experimental Results on Ultimatum Games with Incomplete Information," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 22(2), pages 171-198.
- Rapoport, Amnon & Sundali, James A. & Seale, Darryl A., 1996. "Ultimatums in two-person bargaining with one-sided uncertainty: Demand games," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 30(2), pages 173-196, August.
- Huck, Steffen, 1999. "Responder behavior in ultimatum offer games with incomplete information," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 183-206, April.
- Ingrid Rohde & Kirsten Rohde, 2011. "Risk attitudes in a social context," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 43(3), pages 205-225, December.
- Christiane Bradler, 2009.
"Social Preferences under Risk - An Experimental Analysis,"
Jena Economics Research Papers
2009-022, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
- Bradler, Christiane, 2009. "Social preferences under risk: an experimental analysis," ZEW Discussion Papers 09-077, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
- Fudenberg, Drew & Levine, David K., 2012.
"Fairness, risk preferences and independence: Impossibility theorems,"
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 81(2), pages 606-612.
- Fudenberg, Drew & Lavine, David K., 2012. "Fairness, Risk Preferences and Independence: Impossibility Theorems," Scholarly Articles 11022184, Harvard University Department of Economics.
- J. Michelle Brock & Andreas Lange & Erkut Y. Ozbay, 2013. "Dictating the Risk: Experimental Evidence on Giving in Risky Environments," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(1), pages 415-437, February.
- Rapoport, Amnon & Sundali, James A, 1996. "Ultimatums in Two-Person Bargaining with One-Sided Uncertainty: Offer Games," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 25(4), pages 475-494.
- James Konow, 2000. "Fair Shares: Accountability and Cognitive Dissonance in Allocation Decisions," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 90(4), pages 1072-1091, September.
- Tyran, Jean-Robert & Sausgruber, Rupert, 2006.
"A little fairness may induce a lot of redistribution in democracy,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 469-485, February.
- Jean-Robert Tyran & Rupert Sausgruber, 2002. "A Little Fairness may Induce a Lot of Redistribution in Democracy," University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2002 2002-30, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen.
- Urs Fischbacher, 2007. "z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 10(2), pages 171-178, June.
- Werner Güth & M. Vittoria Levati & Matteo Ploner, 2008.
"On The Social Dimension Of Time And Risk Preferences: An Experimental Study,"
Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 46(2), pages 261-272, April.
- M. Vittoria Levati & Werner Güth & Matteo Ploner, 2005. "On the social dimension of time and risk preferences: An experimental study," Papers on Strategic Interaction 2005-26, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group.
- Kamas, Linda & Preston, Anne, 2012. "Distributive and reciprocal fairness: What can we learn from the heterogeneity of social preferences?," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 33(3), pages 538-553.
- Ben Greiner, 2004. "The Online Recruitment System ORSEE 2.0 - A Guide for the Organization of Experiments in Economics," Working Paper Series in Economics 10, University of Cologne, Department of Economics.
- Friedel Bolle & Philipp E. Otto, 2010. "A Price Is a Signal: on Intrinsic Motivation, Crowding‐out, and Crowding‐in," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 63(1), pages 9-22, February.
- Ben Greiner, 2004. "The Online Recruitment System ORSEE - A Guide for the Organization of Experiments in Economics," Papers on Strategic Interaction 2003-10, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group.
- James Andreoni & B. Douglas Bernheim, 2009.
"Social Image and the 50-50 Norm: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects,"
Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 77(5), pages 1607-1636, September.
- James Andreoni & B. Douglas Bernheim, 2007. "Social Image and the 50-50 Norm: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects," Discussion Papers 07-030, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
- Charlotte Klempt & Kerstin Pull, 2009. "Generosity, Greed and Gambling: What difference does asymmetric information in bargaining make?," Jena Economics Research Papers 2009-021, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
- Höchtl, Wolfgang & Sausgruber, Rupert & Tyran, Jean-Robert, 2012.
"Inequality aversion and voting on redistribution,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(7), pages 1406-1421.
- Wolfgang Höchtl & Rupert Sausgruber & Jean-Robert Tyran, 2011. "Inequality Aversion and Voting on Redistribution," Discussion Papers 11-18, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.
- Wolfgang Höchtl & Rupert Sausgruber & Jean-Robert Tyran, 2011. "Inequality Aversion and Voting on Redistribution," Working Papers 2011-13, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
- Jason Dana & Roberto Weber & Jason Kuang, 2007. "Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 33(1), pages 67-80, October.
- Samuel Bowles & Sandra Polania-Reyes, 2012. "Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements?," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 50(2), pages 368-425, June.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Sutan, Angela & Grolleau, Gilles & Mateu, Guillermo & Vranceanu, Radu, 2018.
"“Facta non verba”: An experiment on pledging and giving,"
Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 1-15.
- Gilles G. Grolleau & Guillermo Mateu & Angela Sutan & Radu Vranceanu, 2015. ""Facta non verba" : an experiment on pledging and giving," Working Papers hal-02799567, HAL.
- Angela Sutan & Gilles Grolleau & Guillermo Mateu & Radu Vranceanu, 2018. ""Facta Non Verba": an experiment on pledging and giving," Post-Print hal-01992416, HAL.
- Grolleau, Gilles & Mateu, Guillermo & Sutan, Angela & Vranceanu, Radu, 2015. "" Facta non verba " : an experiment on pledging and giving," ESSEC Working Papers WP1512, ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School.
- Kandul, Serhiy, 2016. "Ex-post blindness as excuse? The effect of information disclosure on giving," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 91-101.
- Engel, Christoph & Goerg, Sebastian J., 2018.
"If the worst comes to the worst: Dictator giving when recipient’s endowments are risky,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 51-70.
- Christoph Engel & Sebastian Goerg, 2015. "If the Worst Comes to the Worst. Dictator Giving When Recipient’s Endowments are Risky," Discussion Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2015_15, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Winschel, Evguenia & Zahn, Philipp, 2012. "Effciency concern under asymmetric information," Working Papers 13-07, University of Mannheim, Department of Economics.
- Alexia Gaudeul, 2013.
"Social preferences under uncertainty,"
Jena Economics Research Papers
2013-024, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
- Gaudeul, Alexia, 2016. "Social preferences under risk: Minimizing collective risk vs. reducing ex-post inequality," University of Göttingen Working Papers in Economics 283, University of Goettingen, Department of Economics.
- Alexia Gaudeul, 2015. "Social Preferences under Risk: Ex-Post Fairness vs. Efficiency," Jena Economics Research Papers 2015-010, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
- Engel, Christoph & Goerg, Sebastian J., 2018.
"If the worst comes to the worst: Dictator giving when recipient’s endowments are risky,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 51-70.
- Christoph Engel & Sebastian Goerg, 2015. "If the Worst Comes to the Worst. Dictator Giving When Recipient’s Endowments are Risky," Discussion Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2015_15, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.
- Embrey, Matthew & Hyndman, Kyle & Riedl, Arno, 2021.
"Bargaining with a residual claimant: An experimental study,"
Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 126(C), pages 335-354.
- Embrey, M.S. & Hyndman, K. & Riedl, A.M., 2014. "Bargaining with a residual claimant: An experimental study," Research Memorandum 039, Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE).
- Matthew Embrey & Kyle Hyndmanz & Arno Riedl, 2020. "Bargaining with a Residual Claimant: An Experimental Study," Working Paper Series 1520, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
- Matthew Embrey & Kyle Hyndman & Arno Riedl, 2019. "Bargaining with a Residual Claimant: An Experimental Study," Working Paper Series 0419, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
- Matthew Embrey & Kyle Hyndman & Arno Riedl, 2014. "Bargaining with a Residual Claimant: An Experimental Study," CESifo Working Paper Series 5087, CESifo.
- Astrid Gamba & Elena Manzoni & Luca Stanca, 2017.
"Social comparison and risk taking behavior,"
Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 82(2), pages 221-248, February.
- Astrid Gamba & Elena Manzoni, 2014. "Social comparison and risk taking behavior," Jena Economics Research Papers 2014-001, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
- Astrid Gamba & Elena Manzoni & Luca Stanca, 2014. "Social Comparison and Risk Taking Behavior," Jena Economics Research Papers 2014-031, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
- Astrid Gamba & Elena Manzoni, 2014. "Social comparison and risk taking behavior," Working Papers 266, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, revised Jan 2014.
- Akbaş, Merve & Ariely, Dan & Yuksel, Sevgi, 2019. "When is inequality fair? An experiment on the effect of procedural justice and agency," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 161(C), pages 114-127.
- Tomas Miklanek, 2017. "The Effect of Shame in Dictator Games with Information Asymmetry," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp581, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
- Sean Fahle & Santiago I. Sautua, 2021. "How do risk attitudes affect pro-social behavior? Theory and experiment," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 91(1), pages 101-122, July.
- Paetzel, Fabian & Sausgruber, Rupert & Traub, Stefan, 2014.
"Social preferences and voting on reform: An experimental study,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 36-55.
- Fabian Paetzel & Rupert Sausgruber & Stefan Traub, 2014. "Social Preferences and Voting on Reform: An Experimental Study," Department of Economics Working Papers wuwp172, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics.
- Paetzel, Fabian & Sausgruber, Rupert & Traub, Stefan, 2014. "Social Preferences and Voting on Reform: An Experimental Study," Department of Economics Working Paper Series 172, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
- Brownback, Andy & Kuhn, Michael A., 2019. "Understanding outcome bias," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 342-360.
- Christiane Bradler, 2009.
"Social Preferences under Risk - An Experimental Analysis,"
Jena Economics Research Papers
2009-022, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
- Bradler, Christiane, 2009. "Social preferences under risk: an experimental analysis," ZEW Discussion Papers 09-077, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
- Heggedal, Tom-Reiel & Helland, Leif & Våge Knutsen, Magnus, 2022. "The power of outside options in the presence of obstinate types," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 454-468.
- Freundt, Jana & Lange, Andreas, 2017. "On the determinants of giving under risk," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 24-31.
- Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin & Montinari, Natalia & Panganiban, Marian & Ploner, Matteo & Werner, Benedikt, 2018. "On the malleability of fairness ideals: Spillover effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 60-74.
- Gago, Andrés, 2021.
"Reciprocity and uncertainty: When do people forgive?,"
Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
- Andrés Gago, 2020. "Reprocity and Uncertainty: When Do People Forgive?," Working Papers wp2020_2024, CEMFI.
- Chen, Daniel L. & Schonger, Martin, 2016.
"Social preferences or sacred values? Theory and evidence of deontological motivations,"
TSE Working Papers
16-714, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), revised Feb 2020.
- Chen, Daniel L. & Schonger, Martin, 2016. "Social preferences or sacred values? Theroy and evidence of deontological motivations," IAST Working Papers 16-59, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).
- Natalia Montinari & Michela Rancan, 2018. "Risk taking on behalf of others: The role of social distance," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 57(1), pages 81-109, August.
- Snir, Avichai, 2014. "When choosing to be almost certain of winning can be better than choosing to win with certainty," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 135-146.
- Anita Gantner & Rudolf Kerschbamer, 2018. "Social interaction effects: The impact of distributional preferences on risky choices," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 141-164, April.
- Montinari, Natalia & Rancan, Michela, 2020. "A friend is a treasure: On the interplay of social distance and monetary incentives when risk is taken on behalf of others," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
More about this item
Keywords
Asymmetric Information ; Prosocial Behavior ; Efficiency Concern ; Inequality Aversion ; Dictator Game;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2014-07-13 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2014-07-13 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-EXP-2014-07-13 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2014-07-13 (Game Theory)
- NEP-HPE-2014-07-13 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mnh:wpaper:36632. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Katharina Rautenberg (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fvmande.html .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.