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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
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potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation … single-prize and multiple-prize contests. Therefore, it appears that loss aversion is correlated with behavior in the single …
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generally the same in both treatments, in line with rule-based social preference models, like procedural fairness. …
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fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role … behavior depending on their fairness perceptions, their experienced emotions, and their interaction with responders. We find … that fairness plays an important role in the behavior of proposers. Specifically, deviations from a perceived fairness norm …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby … inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature. These …
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The standard theoretical description of rent-seeking contests is that of rational individuals or groups engaging in socially inefficient behavior by exerting costly effort. Experimental studies find that the actual efforts of participants are significantly higher than predicted in the models...
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This experimental study compares sequential and simultaneous election contests. Consistent with the theory, we find evidence of the “New Hampshire effect” in the sequential contests, i.e., the winner of the first electoral battle wins the overall contest with much higher probability than the...
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We examine an experimental gift exchange game in which the players can improve upon the unique no-gifts equilibrium through cooperative gift giving. The main feature of the study is that there are two different types of gift exchange, which we call simple and complex exchange, respectively....
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We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...
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for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …
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