On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games

By John A. List. Journal of Political Economy, 2007

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How did distributional preferences change during the Great Recession (2015, background): “…period, which could be negative in the Loss treatment, plus the initial endowment of 100 tokens.9 7The Loss treatment generalizes the framework of List (2007) and Bardsley (2008), in which the set of feasible monetary payoff choices of person self is always a line with a slope of −1 that goes…”
Money, depletion, and prosociality in the dictator game (2015, background): “Still, positive dictator giving is frequently observed (List, 2007; Engel, 2011).”
Contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior among peers and the role of social proximity (2019, methodology): “…field.4 Our approach to studying behavioral contagion among peers is a variation and extension of the give-or-take donation game first introduced by List (2007) and Bardsley (2008), which allows us to create a level playing field to study the contagion of pro- and antisocial behavior…”
Altruistic behavior in a representative dictator experiment (2008, result): “These results echo the importance of subject pool differences stressed in Levitt and List (2007).”
Design of Stated Preference Surveys: Is There More to Learn from Behavioral Economics? (2010, background): “As discussed by Levitt and List (2007), a number of factors can explain the behavioral differences between the laboratory and the real world: scrutiny, context, stakes, selection of subjects, and restrictions on time horizons and choice sets.”
Do people care about social context? Framing effects in dictator games (2012, positive): “…is called the Wall Street Game (Liberman et al. 2004; Kay and Ross 2003).1 If preferences are so delicately sensitive to context, the external validity of preference data in general, and experimental data in particular, is gravely in doubt (see, e.g., Levitt and List 2007, and references therein).”
The Behavioralist as Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance (2017, background): “The inspiration for our treatments comes from the growing literature suggesting that moral costs can be an important mechanism for changing human behavior (Levitt & List, 2007).”