' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the disadvantaged player makes between pursuing a fair outcome from a disadvantaged … weak players persist in seeking "fairness" is also a function of how much it (potentially) costs them to do so. Students …-cost bargainers to demand fairness and to persist in their demands was a function of how much it cost them to do so, and the degree to …

We examine the characteristics and relative strength of third-party sanctions in a series of experiments. We … hypothesize that egalitarian distribution norms and cooperation norms apply in our experiments, and that third parties, whose …’’ third parties. In addition, these experiments suggest that thirdparty punishment games are powerful tools for studying the …

Departures from pure self interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of "social preferences". We … conduct experiments on simple two-person and three-person games with binary choices that test these theories more directly … than the array of games conventionally considered. Our experiments show strong support for the prevalence of "quasi …

Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of "social preferences". We design … a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Our experiments …

(paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the agency problem. This paper explores, via a novel set of laboratory experiments …