The role of personal involvement and respponsibility in dictatorial allocationstA classroom experimen

1. Durán, P. M.
2. Brañas-Garza, Pablo
3. Espinosa Alejos, María Paz

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Abstract

This paper explores the motivations behind giving. Speci.cally, it focuses on personal involvement and responsibility to explain why decision makers give positive amounts in dictatorial decisons. The experiment is designed to uncover these motivations. Subjects face the problem of a dictator.s allocation of an indivisible pie P to one of two players; indivisibility creates an extremely unequal outcome and the dictator is given a chance to correct this outcome at a cost. The willingness to pay to correct the outcome is examined under di¿erent scenarios so that we learn about several features concerning prefer- ences.

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