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Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist … experiment was conducted before and after the unexpected announcement by pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer on November …
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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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from engaging in actual trade in the experiment. We show that distributional concerns primarily drive opposition to trade …
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outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …
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inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … experiment, we let third parties redistribute resources between two stakeholders who could earn money either by choosing a safe … outcome. Although third parties cannot verify cheating, we find that the mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views of …
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This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which would be created behind a "veil of ignorance", that is to say, without knowing where one would end up in the society's distribution of talent and other attributes valued in the...
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We revisit the long-standing question whether there is a relation between animal welfare and human ethics. Therefore …
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We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find significant...
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critiques to utilitarianism by satisfying the following three fairness axioms: possibility of trade-offs sets a limit to the …
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Undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergeneration justice has been questioned for different reasons: It has …
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