Dictator games: a meta study

Christoph Engel

Experimental Economics, 2011. DOI 10.1007/s10683-011-9283-7

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The effects of the take-option in dictator-game experiments: a comment on Engel's (2011) meta-study, Zhang & Ortmann (2014). Experimental Economics. Outcome recorded: computation not checked, robustness challenges. Robustness: We find Engel's meta-study of dictator game experiments to be robust, with one important exception: the coding of the take-option (List in J. Polit. Econ. 115(3):482–493, 2007; Bardsley in Exp. Econ. 11(2):122–133, 2008; Cappelen et al. in Econ. Lett. 118(2):280–283, 2013). While Engel reports this as having no statistically significant effect, in our replications, we find an economically and statistically significant negative effect on giving in line with the… Read from Robustness: abstract. View paper

Engel, C. (2011). Dictator games: a meta study. Experimental Economics, 14(4), 583–610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-011-9283-7