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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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Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...
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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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, preregistered experiment (N = 1,959) we demonstrate that consideration for transgressors' beliefs affects punishment decisions on …
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The experimental literature on preferences for redistribution has established that individual perceptions of what earning distributions are fair depend greatly on context. In this paper, we study an important and novel dimension of context: whether the choice to redistribute occurs before...
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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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from engaging in actual trade in the experiment. We show that distributional concerns primarily drive opposition to trade …
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-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income … experiment shows that respondents do not account for parental influence on economic success when making (re …
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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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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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