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The Role of Personal Involvement and Responsibility in Unfair Outcomes

A Classroom Investigation

Pablo Brañas-Garza

Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad de Económicas y Empresariales, Campus de la Cartuja s/n, Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, SPAIN, pbg{at}ugr.es

Miguel A. Durán

Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad de Económicas y Empresariales, Campus El Ejido. AP. Of. Suc 4., E-29071 Málaga, SPAIN, maduran{at}uma.es

Maria Paz Espinosa

Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico II, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Avenida Lehendakari Aguirre 83, E-48015 Bilbao, Spain, mariapaz.espinosa{at}ehu.es

This paper explores new motivations behind giving. Specifically, it focuses on personal involvement and responsibility to explain why decision makers give positive amounts in dictatorial decisions. The experiment is designed to uncover these motivations. Subjects face the problem of a dictator's allocation of an indivisible amount 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 different scenarios so that we learn about several features concerning preferences.

Key Words: fairness • dictator game • moral cost

Rationality and Society, Vol. 21, No. 2, 225-248 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1043463109103900
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