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the prize structure affects the intensity, fair-ness, and dynamic behavior in sequential round-robin tournaments with three …
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This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...
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We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...
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intrinsically linked to distributive fairness. We find that compliance remains largely unaffected by complexity when income taxes …
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and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates … the experiment. These results support the notion that fairness preferences as assessed in laboratory experiments capture …
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Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...
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underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further …, only fairness views play a significant mediating role between status and allocation differences, suggesting this is the …
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decisions are mainly driven by own material interests and fairness ideals. For the latter, players display remarkable … negatively to redistribution decisions that do not fit any fairness ideals. Our results suggest that even in the realm of moral …
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Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the Power-to-Take Game. In this 2-person game, player 1 can...
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Credence goods markets – like for health care or repair services – with their informational asymmetries between sellers and customers are prone to fraudulent behavior of sellers and resulting market inefficiencies. We present the first model that considers both diagnostic uncertainty of...
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