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This chapter seeks to provide new evidence on economic approaches to the issue of altruism based on Dictator Game experiments, focusing on experiments where the information status of the recipient is variable.
* This paper was presented at the Congress of the International Economic Association 2002 in Lisbon. We would like to thank Simon Gaechter, Werner Gueth, Gunda Laasch-Wrobel, Axel Ockenfels and in particular the two editors of this volume for their helpful comments. We further thank the German Science Foundation (Grant Bo 747/5-1) for financial support.
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Kritikos, A., Bolle, F. (2005). Utility-Based Altruism: Evidence from Experiments. In: Agarwal, B., Vercelli, A. (eds) Psychology, Rationality and Economic Behaviour. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522343_9
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