TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Jacobsen, Karin
AU  - Eika, Kari H.
AU  - Helland, Leif
AU  - Lind, Jo Thori
AU  - Nyborg, Karine
        TI  - Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers?
        PY  - 2011/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5721
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5721
        AB  - We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient. Although brokers contributed substantial amounts, nurses contributed significantly more, on average 76 percent of their endowment. In a second part, subjects chose between a certain repetition of the experiment and a 50-50 chance of costly exit. About one third of the brokers and half of the nurses chose the exit option. While generosity was indeed higher among nurses, even when taking exits into account, the difference cannot readily be attributed to different degrees of altruism.
        KW  - generosity
KW  - exit option
KW  - dictator game
KW  - occupational differences
        ER  -