Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5061714 Economics Letters 2008 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

We explore whether the recent laboratory findings that suggest the origin of endowment matters in simple bargaining games are actually due to contextual shifts of relative effort and deservingness. Results support previous findings of endowment origin yielding more self-interested behavior.

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Self-interest, sympathy and the origin of endowments
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