Study Charness & Grosskopf (2001): study ES 1998

Public

University students, Barcelona, Spain, 1998

Sample

Respondents

N = 121

Non Response

0 %

Assessment

Multiple assesment methods
Questionnaire and experiment

Correlate

Authors's Label

Decision 2 (egalitarian vs downgrading choice)

Our Classification

Remarks

Values were in Spanish Peseta's: 150 = US$ 1 Only active subjects (B) considered here.

Distribution

Egalitarian 88%, downgrading 12%

Operationalization

Ss met in one large room and were explained that they would randomly be assigned one of two roles in an experiment:
A: Passive role (dead), no say in the decision, only asked what they would do if they had been in the other role and/or to predict the choice of B
B: Active role (live), makes two decisions about partition of money between A and B

After this introduction Ss were randomly assigned either role A or role B. Next Ss answered written questions about respectively general happiness (GH), comparative happiness (CH) and momentary happiness (MH)

Then B's were asked to choose between two options for partition between all A and B subjects, which were equally rewarding for themselves:
1 downgrading: 400 for A, 600 for B
2 egalitarian: 600 for A, 600 for B

Observed Relation with Happiness