We use a within-subjects design to study how responsibility for the payofs of diferent number of others infuences the choices under risk, and how choosing together with another person changes these decisions. After controlling for the regression to the mean, we fnd a weak efect of responsibility for one other person on risk taking as compared to choosing just for oneself. We, however, do fnd that the number of others infuenced by the choice matters: when it increases from one to three, risk averse subjects choose riskier options and risk loving subjects choose more cautiously, which pushes the choices towards the modal risk preferences in the population. Mutual responsibility makes choices for others shift even more in the same direction. The observed behavior is in accordance with the blame avoidance hypothesis: decision makers with responsibility try to reduce the amount of blame for their choices, which is minimal when the choices for others are consistent with what they would have chosen for themselves.
The Impact of the Level of Responsibility on Choices under Risk: the Role of Blame / Eijkelenboom, Gilbert; Rohde, Ingrid; Vostroknutov, Alexander. - In: EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS. - ISSN 1386-4157. - 22 (2019):(2019), pp. 794-814. [10.1007/s10683-018-9587-y]
The Impact of the Level of Responsibility on Choices under Risk: the Role of Blame
Vostroknutov, Alexander
2019-01-01
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We use a within-subjects design to study how responsibility for the payofs of diferent number of others infuences the choices under risk, and how choosing together with another person changes these decisions. After controlling for the regression to the mean, we fnd a weak efect of responsibility for one other person on risk taking as compared to choosing just for oneself. We, however, do fnd that the number of others infuenced by the choice matters: when it increases from one to three, risk averse subjects choose riskier options and risk loving subjects choose more cautiously, which pushes the choices towards the modal risk preferences in the population. Mutual responsibility makes choices for others shift even more in the same direction. The observed behavior is in accordance with the blame avoidance hypothesis: decision makers with responsibility try to reduce the amount of blame for their choices, which is minimal when the choices for others are consistent with what they would have chosen for themselves.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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