consequences? In a laboratory experiment, we study three different quota rules in tournaments that favor individuals whose … matter for the consequences of affirmative action. No policy harms overall productivity or post-competition teamwork, but …

of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly … overlooked: the swiftness of formal sanctions. We consider two dimensions: the timing at which the uncertainty about whether one …

-faceted self-concept (identity) we conduct an experiment with foreign- and US-born Chinese immigrants at a large US public …

disadvantaged group or handicap for the privileged group, affect behavior. We examine these questions in a laboratory experiment in …

The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational … interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …

decision tasks where specific choice patterns are consistent with incomplete preferences under uncertainty but inconsistent … uncertainty. …

choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when … some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although, under certainty almost all uninvolved participants distribute … resources equally, they exhibit remarkable heterogeneity in just allocations under uncertainty. Moreover, uninvolved …

In this paper we use an experiment to compare a theory of risk aversion and a theory of spite as an explanation for …

under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than … predicted. For all degrees of uncertainty, we find a coexistence of libertarianism and redistribution as well as incomplete …