Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments … of the E&S experiments were undergraduate students of economics and business administration who self-selected into their …

party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without …

, inducing them to resist entering into employment contracts. This resistance to employment contracts vanishes if fairness …

-interest theory but is consistent with theories of fairness. …

systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and … insights into the nature of preferences and into the relative performance of competing theories of fairness. The purpose of …

We show that concerns for fairness may have dramatic consequences for the optimal provision of incentives in a moral … concerned with fairness. Conversely, contracts that are doomed to fail when there are only selfish actors provide powerful … of a series of experiments. Furthermore, our results suggest that the existence of fair actors may be an important reason …

We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property …