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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 … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
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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 …
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Unfair intentions provoke negative reciprocity from others, making their concealment potentially beneficial. This paper explores whether people hide their unfair intentions from others and how hiding intentions is itself perceived in fairness terms. Our experimental data show a high frequency of...
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We report results from the first experimental study of round-robin tournaments. In our experiment, we investigate how …
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from engaging in actual trade in the experiment. We show that distributional concerns primarily drive opposition to trade …
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experiment, we let third parties redistribute resources between two stakeholders who could earn money either by choosing a safe …
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framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …
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obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are …
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consequences? In a laboratory experiment, we study three different quota rules in tournaments that favor individuals whose …
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An influential subset of the literature on distributional preferences studies how preferences condition on information about workers’ characteristics, such as their relative productivity. In this study we confirm that there are default effects when such conditional fair-ness preferences are...
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