Peer Perception by Politicians: Evidence from Ultimatum Games Experiments with Incumbent Legislators

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Brief Overview

We field modified ultimatum game with hundreds of politicians and find that they make significantly less generous offers to peers relative to citizens when bargaining, and that they strongly disfavour out-partisan colleagues and citizens.

Authors

• Lior Sheffer, University of Toronto

• Peter John Loewen, University of Toronto