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In the treatments with the random dictator procedure, we control the probability to be pivotal.
In 2 otherwise identical control treatments, the outcome is determined by the random dictator procedure, i.e. by a randomly chosen voter.
In summary, the deviations between predicted and observed redistribution outcomes are small (about 0.6) and do not differ across treatments in the random dictator procedure, but deviations are large (about 2.8) and significant in the majority voting treatments.
The two treatments with random dictator procedure are identical to the respective treatments with majority voting in all respects (e.g. payoffs, class structure) except for how redistribution outcomes are determined from individual votes.
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We implement two treatments with random dictator decision making.
Note that incentives for insincere voting are completely absent in the treatments with random dictator choice.
Figs. 5 and 6 show the average redistribution choice by income class for random dictator voting in RMRD and PMRD.
Section 3.2 shows that asymmetry is absent in the control treatments with a random dictator voting mechanism.
In these "random dictator" treatments the probability to be pivotal is exogenous and same for all voters, independent of whether they are rich or poor.
The reason is that while we control the pivot probability in the random dictator treatments (it is 0.2), the absolute level of that probability is not known in the voting treatments.
Both the poor and the rich make random dictator choices slightly above predictions in PMRD (d P =8.56 vs. r P ⁎=8, p=0.030; d R =1.50 vs. r R ⁎=1, p=0.030, WSR).
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