From the lab to the field: Envelopes, dictators and manners

Experimental Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 304-313

  Stoop, Jan ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Altruism; Dictator game; External validity; Misdirected letter technique; Natural field experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900300881     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-013-9368-6     Document Type: Article

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