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Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999

' 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 …

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA

Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002

This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...

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Time over the Life Course: Preferences, Options and Life Course Policy

Groot, Loek; Breedveld, Koen - EconWPA - 2004

This article has a twofold objective and addresses two central questions. Is there a gap between the preferences for and availability of various ways to make working patterns more flexible over the life course? What is the role of life course policy (LCP) in narrowing this gap? Using the...

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Third-party punishment and social norms

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

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 economic payoff is unaffected by the norm violation, may be...

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Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction, and Average Well-Being under Different Income Distributions

Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan; Morone, Andrea - EconWPA - 2004

This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency theory to explain back-ground context effects,individual income satisfaction versus aggregate...

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Social Preferences: Some Simple Tests and a New Model

Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - EconWPA - 2001

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...

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Income Distributions versus Lotteries: Happiness, Response Mode Effects and Preference Reversals

Morone, Andrea; Seidl, Christian; Camacho-Cuena, Eva - EconWPA - 2004

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Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests

Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - EconWPA - 2003

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 show that subjects are more concerned with increasing...

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Trust and Reciprocity in Incentive Contracting

Rigdon, Mary - EconWPA - 2005

Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...

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Expressed Preferences and Behavior in Experimental Games

Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - EconWPA - 2004

It is traditional in experimental games to allow participants to choose only actions or possibly communicate intended play. In sequential two-person games, we require first movers to express a preference between responder choices. We find that responder behavior differs substantially according...

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