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This paper investigates whether an altered design to the dictator and third party punishment games would reveal that norm enforcement is a preferable explanatory theory to other popular theories, including fairness motives and inequity aversion. The experimental design creates conditions where the responses should differ if participants are enforcing norms, but should not differ if they are responding ... read moreto fairness motives or inequity aversion. We find that participants respond differently to the two conditions, but in a very specific way. This paper identifies a clear need for expanded experimental designs within simple allocation games to allow for specific comparisons between theories.read less
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