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 …

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 …

In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common … pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …

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 …

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved?. -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …

when such conditional fair-ness preferences are measured using the “inequality acceptance” method. Depending on the default …, implemented inequality decreases by over 65% and cross-country differences are not observed. To organize the data, we develop a … identify distributional preferences and default effects, and discuss best practices for measuring fairness preferences. …

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 …

inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution …The steady increase in inequality over the past decades has revived a lively debate about what can be considered a fair … inequality. We focus on situations in which the rich have potentially acquired their fortunes by means of cheating. In an …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …