Bridging the gap between the economics lab and the field: dictator games and donations

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• dc.contributor.author Wang, Xinghua
• dc.contributor.author Navarro-Martinez, Daniel
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-06T06:54:55Z
• dc.date.available 2023-07-06T06:54:55Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract There is growing concern about the extent to which economic games played in the laboratory generalize to social behaviors outside the lab. Here, we show that it is possible to make a game much more predictive of field behavior by bringing contextual elements from the field to the lab. We report three experiments where we present the same participants with different versions of the dictator game and with two different field situations. The games are designed to include elements that make them progressively more similar to the field. We find a dramatic increase in lab–field correlations as contextual elements are incorporated, which has wide-ranging implications for experiments on economic decision making.
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant PID2019-105249GB-I00), the BBVA Foundation (grant Fundacion BBVA-EI-2019-D.Navarro), and the Ramon Areces Foundation (grant Fundacion Ramon Areces 2019-Navarro).
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• dc.identifier.citation Wang X, Navarro-Martinez D. Bridging the gap between the economics lab and the field: dictator games and donations. Judgm Decis Mak. 2023;18:e18. DOI: 10.1017/jdm.2023.19
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2023.19
• dc.identifier.issn 1930-2975
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57480
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Judgment and Decision Making. 2023;18:e18.
• dc.relation.isreferencedby https://osf.io/du8vr/?view_only=5e3274054cd64cc8aeca64008ae8ed13
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-105249GB-I00
• dc.rights © The Author(s), 2023. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
• dc.subject.keyword economic experiments
• dc.subject.keyword external validity
• dc.subject.keyword dictator games
• dc.subject.keyword charitable giving
• dc.subject.keyword volunteering
• dc.title Bridging the gap between the economics lab and the field: dictator games and donations
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