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health, and fairness of pay. … variability therefore uncovers a mechanism of how perceptions of unfairness can adversely affect cardiovascular health. We further … test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. Complementary to our …
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the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three different scenarios (a Dictator game, an Ultimatum game, and a Trust … same session we elicit again their principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in the same three … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations …
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While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
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decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict that "fairer" players should trust less.
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mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …
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strength. We then present three experiments that study main predictions and implications of the model. The first is a simple …
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Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals of Chinese ethnicity in Australia, focusing on …
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