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Mine, Ours and Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games

Bergh, Andreas - 2018

This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...

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Let the Market Decide : An Experimental Study of Competition and Fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2021

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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Social Welfare Versus Inequality Concerns in an Incomplete Contract Experiment

Faravelli, Marco; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

We study a situation where two players first choose a sharing rule, then invest into a joint production process, and then split joint benefits. We investigate how social preferences determine investments. In our experiment we find that even the materially disadvantaged player cares more for...

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Justice Under Uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2021

An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy 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,...

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

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Us and Them: Distributional Preferences in Small and Large Groups

Schumacher, Heiner; Kesternich, Iris; Kosfeld, Michael; … - CESifo - 2014

We analyze distributional preferences in games in which a decider chooses the provision of a good that benefits a receiver and creates costs for a group of payers. The average decider takes into account the welfare of all parties and has concerns for efficiency. However, she attaches similar...

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Does Willful Ignorance Deflect Punishment? - An Experimental Study

Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...

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