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Fairness preferences, inequality acceptance and default effects
Valasek, Justin; Vorjohann, Pauline; Wang, Weijia - 2024
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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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806641
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Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behavior?
Drouvelis, Michalis; Georgantzís, Nikolaos - 2019
Many modern organisations collect data on individuals' personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982406
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(In-)equality of opportunity, fairness, and distributional preferences
Fehr, Dietmar; Müller, Daniel; Preuß, Marcel - 2022
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411680
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The missing type : where are the inequality averse (students)?
Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2024
The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences—or lack thereof—is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in...
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Intention-based fairness preferences in two-player contests
Hoffmann, Magnus; Kolmar, Martin - 2013
We analyze equilibria of two-player contests where players have intention-based preferences. We find that players invest more effort compared to the case with selfish preferences and are even willing to exert effort when the monetary value of the prize converges to zero. As a consequence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702885
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A fairness justification of utilitarianism
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2016
Differences in preferences are important to explain variation in individuals' behavior. There is however no consensus on how to take these differences into account when evaluating policies. While prominent in the economic literature, the standard utilitarian criterion faces two major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434634
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Meta-analysis of inequality aversion estimates
Nunnari, Salvatore; Pozzi, Maximilian Joseph - 2022
We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285841
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Justice under uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2013
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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