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consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can …
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investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives …
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, preregistered experiment (N = 1,959) we demonstrate that consideration for transgressors' beliefs affects punishment decisions on …
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While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
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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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obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are …
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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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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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experiment in the US, we show that success causes a change in beliefs about success depending on effort rather than luck …
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