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Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can … inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …
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find that individuals’ risk preferences are predictive for giving in both experiments. Increased risk exposure of … correlated with giving in the absence of risk. We find limited support for existing models of ex-post and ex-ante fairness. Our …
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Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly …, both between countries and within them. But the degree of air quality inequality and its’ trajectory have not been … quantified at a global level. I use economic inequality indices to measure global inequality in exposure to ambient fine …
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Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single … powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers- an environment that can lead to pronounced inequality among the …
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We investigate how moral considerations, background conditions and risk can trigger resistance to implement trading institutions. We provide survey results on moral opposition to trade on several goods and services like body organs, sex services, surrogate mothers, trade with developing nations,...
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relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
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This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the socialist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We show that there are significant differences between former GDR and FRG residents...
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment in which we elicit willingness to pay for conventional and Fairtrade chocolate. Treatments vary whether this can be...
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Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
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