Experimental Data from Modified Dictator Game on Composite Utility Preferences

This dataset accompanies the article "Balancing Self-Interest and Social Welfare: Experimental Evidence from Composite Utility Preferences in Distributive Decisions" . It contains anonymized experimental data collected from 211 university students who participated in a modified dictator game designed to measure the trade-off between personal monetary gain and impersonal social welfare outcomes.

Participants made ten binary allocation decisions in which they chose between Option A (higher personal gain) and Option B (greater benefit to a group of anonymous recipients). The dataset allows for the estimation of individual-level composite utility parameters that integrate self-interest and social concern using structural models.

Contents:

Participant ID

Round number

Year of Study

Payoff Option A (personal + group vector)

Payoff Option B (personal + group vector)

Chosen Option (A or B)

Calculated differences in personal and group welfare

Simulation-ready format for utility estimation

File format: CSV (Comma Separated Values)Encoding: UTF-8

Keywords: behavioural economics, composite utility, dictator game, distributive decisions, impersonal social preferences, prosocial behaviour, experimental economics