Inequality-seeking punishment

Economics Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-23

  Houser, Daniel ^a   Xiao, Erte ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictator game; Experimental economics; Inequality; Intentions; Punishment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955606609     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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