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It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the choice set providing a signal about entitlements in a setting where...
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It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the choice set providing a signal about entitlements in a setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040327
others cooperation. Moreover, we show that the fairness question , a recently proposed alternative to the standard trust …
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cooperation choices and one (using the strategy method) in which they do not matter. We show that the “fairness question”, a …
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We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...
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majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are … pivotal. Pivotality, in turn, depends on the structure of income classes. We experimentally study voting on redistribution … to matter if the “rich” are in majority. With a “poor” majority, we find that redistribution outcomes look as if all …
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majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are … pivotal. Pivotality, in turn, depends on the structure of income classes. We experimentally study voting on redistribution … to matter if the "rich" are in majority. With a "poor" majority, we find that redistribution outcomes look as if all …
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redistribution. We theoretically identify two classes of conditions when an empirically plausible amount of fairness preferences … induces redistribution through referenda. We test the predictions of the adapted inequality aversion model in a simple … redistribution experiment, and find that it predicts voting outcomes far better than the standard model of voting assuming …
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