Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Antonio  Estache
Author-Name-First: Antonio 
Author-Name-Last: Estache
Author-Name: Renaud Foucart
Author-Name-First: Renaud
Author-Name-Last: Foucart
Author-Name: Konstantinos Georgalos
Author-Name-First: Konstantinos
Author-Name-Last: Georgalos
Title: Preference for Control vs. Random Dictatorship
Abstract: In a laboratory experiment, we find that subjects do not exhibit preference for control when the alternative is a random dictatorship, a lottery implementing either their choice or the choice of someone else with equal probability. In contrast,<br/>we replicate Owens et al. (2014)’s result that they do so when the alternative is to have the choice of someone else implemented with certainty. This implies that the introduction of random dictatorships in discrete procedures such as those used for<br/>the allocation of some public procurement contracts does not necessarily involve a loss of perceived autonomy.
Creation-Date: 2024
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2024_005.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 413554011
Classification-JEL: C91, D44, D8, H57
Keywords: control, lotteries, random dictatorship
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:413554011