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Revealed notions of distributive justice I: Theory
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II: Experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....
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Betrayal aversion versus principled trustfulness—How to explain risk avoidance and risky choices in trust games
Fetchenhauer, Detlef; Dunning, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 534-541
Are decisions in a trust game more or less sensitive to changes in risk than decisions in a purely financial, non …-social decision-making task? Participants in a binary trust game (they could either keep $5 for sure or give it to a trustee with the … 80 percent and then were asked to decide whether to trust that other person. In addition, participants made a decision in …
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Signs and (counter)signals of trustworthiness
Gambetta, Diego; Székely, Áron - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 281-297
trust game. Subjects play a dictator game unaware that later they will play a trust game and that their level of generosity … in the dictator game will be revealed to trusters, with some inaccuracy, before trusters decide whether to trust or not …
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An ultimatum game with multidimensional response strategies
Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Nardi, Chiara; … - 2014
We enrich the choice task of responders in ultimatum games by allowing them to independently decide whether to collect what is offered to them and whether to destroy what the proposer demanded. Such a multidimensional response format intends to cast further light on the motives guiding responder...
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Would you mind if I get more? An experimental study of the envy game
Casal, Sandro; Güth, Werner; Jia, Mofei; Ploner, Matteo - 2011
Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the size of the pie to be shared with a responder, whose share...
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Hidden costs of control: Three repetitions and an extension
Ploner, Matteo; Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2010
those of the original study. We mainly observe hidden costs of control of low magnitude which lead to low-trust principal …
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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-based Lucas Critique of Public Policy
Bowles, Samuel; Reyes, Sandra Polanía - CESifo - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
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Social preferences under risk: Ex-post fairness vs. efficiency
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015
Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one's situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives equal...
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