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Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...
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, inducing them to resist entering into employment contracts. This resistance to employment contracts vanishes if fairness …
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We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892188
We show that concerns for fairness may have dramatic consequences for the optimal provision of incentives in a moral … concerned about fairness. Conversely, contracts that are doomed to fail when there are only selfish actors provide powerful …
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In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common …
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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 …
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We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property rights approach by showing that the ownership structure affects relationship-specific investments and that subjects attain the most efficient ownership allocation despite starting...
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We show experimentally that fairness concerns may have a decisive impact on both the actual and the optimal choice of … inferior when some agents value fairness. Conversely, implicit bonus contracts that are doomed to fail among purely selfish … recently developed theories of fairness, which also offer interesting new insights into the interaction of contract choices …
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