TY - JOUR
T1 - More Is Better, But Fair Is Fair
T2 - Tipping in Dictator and Ultimatum Games
AU - Ruffle, Bradley J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper, based on chapter 2 of my Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton University, has bene®tted from the guidance of Daniel Kahneman. Helpful suggestions and comments have also been offered by Avinash Dixit, Wake Epps, Alvin Roth, Timothy Van Zandt, two anonymous referees, and, especially, Rachel Croson. Funding for the experiments was provided by the Department of Economics at Princeton and by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation.
PY - 1998/5/1
Y1 - 1998/5/1
N2 - This paper examines Allocators' willingness to reward and punish their paired Recipients. Recipients only compete in a skill-testing contest, the outcome of which determines the size of the surplus. In the dictator game, Allocators reward skillful Recipients, but punish unskillful ones only modestly. The punishment effect is mitigated by the belief held by some Allocators thateffortis the appropriate measure of deservingness. The ultimatum game extension reveals offerers' ability to adapt to the strategic environment. Offers to skillful Recipients in the ultimatum game, however, are shown to be motivated by a taste for fairness, and not strategic considerations.Journal of Economic LiteratureClassification Numbers: C70, C91, D63.
AB - This paper examines Allocators' willingness to reward and punish their paired Recipients. Recipients only compete in a skill-testing contest, the outcome of which determines the size of the surplus. In the dictator game, Allocators reward skillful Recipients, but punish unskillful ones only modestly. The punishment effect is mitigated by the belief held by some Allocators thateffortis the appropriate measure of deservingness. The ultimatum game extension reveals offerers' ability to adapt to the strategic environment. Offers to skillful Recipients in the ultimatum game, however, are shown to be motivated by a taste for fairness, and not strategic considerations.Journal of Economic LiteratureClassification Numbers: C70, C91, D63.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0001291166
U2 - 10.1006/game.1997.0630
DO - 10.1006/game.1997.0630
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001291166
SN - 0899-8256
VL - 23
SP - 247
EP - 265
JO - Games and Economic Behavior
JF - Games and Economic Behavior
IS - 2
ER -