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ECONOMICS LETTERS
Volume 102, Issue 3, Pages 152-154Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.12.005
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Altruism; Discounting; Dictator game; Intertemporal choice
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Postponing payments in the Dictator game, subjects allocate future payments between themselves and others. Since both payoffs of Dictators and Receivers are delayed equally, standard intertemporal utility maximization predicts no effect. Nevertheless, we observe negative effect of time on altruism. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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