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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...

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Use and abuse of authority: A behavioral foundation of the employment relation

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2013

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

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Discrimination at Young Age : Experimental Evidence from Preschool Children

Bindra, Parampreet Christopher - 2019

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Fairness and the optimal allocation of ownership rights

Fehr, Ernst; Kremhelmer, Susanne; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2005

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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Contracts, fairness, and incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Klein, Alexander; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2004

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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