Open AccessNorms of Cooperation, Trust, Altruism, and Fairness: Evidence from Lab Experiments on Pakistani Students
Author(s) -
Theresa Thompson Chaudhry,
Misha Saleem
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the lahore journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1811-5446
pISSN - 1811-5438
DOI - 10.35536/lje.2011.v16.isp.a15
Subject(s) - dictator game , ultimatum game , altruism (biology) , social preferences , dictator , social dilemma , prisoner's dilemma , inequity aversion , experimental economics , dilemma , social psychology , behavioral economics , population , psychology , economics , microeconomics , game theory , sociology , political science , mathematical analysis , philosophy , demography , mathematics , epistemology , politics , law , inequality
A rich area of economic research focuses on the role of controlledexperiments to understand interactions between agents and agents’ own deepseededpreferences as they pertain to pro-social behavior. Four of the mostcommon games—the prisoner’s dilemma, and the trust, ultimatum, and dictatorgames—have been used both in laboratory and field settings, and with studentand nonstudent participants. Cardenas and Carpenter (2008) have compiledevidence for these four games that has been collected from behavioral experimentsconducted in the US and a number of developing countries. In this paper, wewish to add to the existing evidence by presenting the results of lab experimentscarried out on a population of economics students at a university in Lahore.