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Our main findings support our hypothesis: when the dictator game is not exogenously given but chosen by the receivers (or passive players), this makes them accountable, which leads to less giving by dictators. We also conducted an online survey to gain further insights about our experimental results. Survey participants predicted most of the observed behavior in the experiment and explained the factors that might have driven the predicted behavior using reasoning similar to ours. Our results provide a new perspective for the dependence of giving in the dictator game on contextual factors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/g13060074","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,4]],"date-time":"2022-11-04T03:28:10Z","timestamp":1667532490000},"page":"74","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Endogenous Game Choice and Giving Behavior in Distribution Games"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2442-6949","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emin","family":"Karag\u00f6zo\u011flu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Economics, Bilkent University, 06800 \u00c7ankaya-Ankara, Turkey"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6729-8468","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elif","family":"Tosun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Economics and Business, University of Pompeu Fabra, C\/Ram\u00f3n Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"285","DOI":"10.1086\/296367","article-title":"Fairness and the assumptions of economics","volume":"59","author":"Kahneman","year":"1986","journal-title":"J. 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