The effect of stakes in distribution experiments

Economics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 393-398

  Carpenter, Jeffrey ^a   Verhoogen, Eric ^b   Burks, Stephen ^c  

^a Middlebury College   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Dictator game; Endowment effect; Fairness; Stakes; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544306960     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2004.08.007     Document Type: Article

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