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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views
Andre, Peter - 2021
Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
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Shallow meritocracy
Andre, Peter - 2023
circumstances. In an experiment, US participants judge how much money workers deserve for the effort they exert. Unequal …
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"They Never Had a Chance" : unequal opportunities and fair redistributions
Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo; Lien, Jaimie W - 2022 - This Version: July 6, 2022
A meritocratic fairness ideal is generally believed to regard income inequality as fair if it stems from performance differentials rather than luck. In this study, we present experimental evidence showing that merit judgments are shaped by the source of performance differentials while holding...
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The fairness of inequality due to risk and effort choices
Sterba, Maj-Britt - 2022
Three determining factors for economic inequality are self-chosen effort, self-chosen risk, and external circumstances. The fairness people assign to inequalities due to effort and external circumstances is widely studied. Insights on the fairness of inequalities due to self-chosen effort and...
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On the malleability of fairness ideals : order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks
Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015
experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …
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Does willful ignorance deflect punishment? : an experimental study
Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013
consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can …
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games
Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009
Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...
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When Is Inequality Fair? An Experiment on the Effect of Procedural Justice and Agency
Akbaş, Merve; Ariely, Dan; Yuksel, Sevgi - 2016
) Procedural justice – equal treatment of all; (2) Agency – one’s ability to determine his/her income. We do this in a lab … experiment by differentially varying subjects’ ability to influence their earnings. Comparison of ex-post redistribution … decisions of total earnings under different conditions indicate both agency and procedural justice to matter for fairness …
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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023
experiment, participants complete real-effort tasks and then are randomly assigned a high or low pay rate per correct answer to …
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