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Discrimination at Young Age: Experimental Evidence from Preschool Children
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2018
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/10011957212
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Discrimination at Young Age : Experimental Evidence from Preschool Children
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher - 2019
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
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Fairness, Incentives and Contractual Incompleteness
Fehr, Ernst; Klein, Alexander; Schmidt, Klaus - 2001
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315115
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Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity - Evidence and Economic Applications
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315242