题目：Social  Norm  and  Giving  with  Indivisibility  of  Money:An  Experiment  of  Selfishness,Equality  and  Generosity

时间：2017年11月22日  星期三  12:00 – 13:30

地点：明德主楼714

报告人：Te  Bao

摘要：We study a dictator game considering selfishness, equality and generosity. The dictators first indicate their willingness to give in a decision form and then allocate 10 yuan cash to the receiver in an envelope. The cash consists of 10 banknotes of 1-yuan in Treatment 1 (high divisibility) and 2 banknotes of 5-yuan in Treatment 2 (low divisibility). Treatment 2 only has three choices of giving (0, 5, 10), and entails three extreme cases: selfishness, equality and generosity. The results show that (1) There is no significant difference between the willingness to give and actual giving in the both treatments; (2) A sizable share (30%) of individuals take ceilings or floors rather than the standard rounding in the low divisibility treatment. However, the individual round-up and round-down behavior mute the effect of each other at the aggregate level.