The Importance of Moral Reflection and Self-Reported Data in a Dictator Game with Production, 2006

"The Importance of Moral Reflection and Self-Reported Data in a Dictator Game with Production, 2006" studies how individual behavior is affected by moral reflection in a dictator game with production. In the experiment individuals reflect on fairness, in a structured way, before they play the dictator game. The results suggest that moral reflection not only increases the weight people attach to fairness in distributive choices, but also has a strong effect on what people consider fair. Furthermore, the self-reported data are found to have substantial informational value, but do not add explanatory power to a random utility model estimated on purely behavioral data. Finally, the project investigates whether there is a self-serving bias in the participants’ fairness perceptions, but evidence of this phenomenon is not found in the data. "The Importance of Moral Reflection and Self-Reported Data in a Dictator Game with Production, 2006" is generated in the project "Responsibility, Individual Choice and Restributive Policy".