Identifying social norms using coordination games: Spectators vs. stakeholders

•We elicit social norms in dictator games using Krupka and Weber (2013) procedure.•We elicit norms separately from dictators, recipients, and third party respondents.•We find that norms are stable and insensitive to the role of the respondent.

We investigate social norms for dictator game giving using a recently proposed norm-elicitation procedure (Krupka and Weber, 2013). We elicit norms separately from dictator, recipient, and disinterested third party respondents and find that elicited norms are stable and insensitive to the role of the respondent. The results support the use of this procedure as a method for measuring social norms.