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Expected Behavior and Strategic Sophistication in the Dictator Game
Ismael Rodriguez-laraPablo Brañas-garzasubject
jel:C91jel:D63expectations strategic sophistication dictator game equal split guessingjel:D64description
This paper provides novel results for the extensive literature on dictator games: recipients do not expect dictators to behave selfishly, but instead expect the equal split division. The predictions made by dictators are notably different: 45% predicted the zero contribution and 40% the equal split. These results suggest that dictators and recipients are heterogenous with regard to their degree of strategic sophistication and identify the dictator's decision power in a very different manner.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-07-01 |