Publication Date
2018
Journal or Book Title
Games
Abstract
Using a laboratory experiment, we collected data on dictator giving among student strangers and married couples in a suburban area in the United States. Confirming common belief and prior empirical evidence, we find that giving among spouses is greater than giving among anonymous students. We further investigated factors associated with spousal giving which may provide insight for the development of future theories, or into explaining other-regarding preferences. Our data shows that giving is positively associated with who manages household money and controls household income. This result is robust after controlling for each spouse’s personal income and using various econometric specifications. The results suggest that spousal giving may be due to household economic roles in addition to other-regarding preferences.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/g9030069
Volume
9
Issue
3
License
UMass Amherst Open Access Policy
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Gnagey, Matthew K.; Grijalva, Therese C.; and Rong, Rong, "Spousal Dictator Game: Household Decisions and Other-Regarding Preferences" (2018). Games. 204.
https://doi.org/10.3390/g9030069