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(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …
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We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...
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systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and … insights into the nature of preferences and into the relative performance of competing theories of fairness. The purpose of …
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This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...
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conventional contract theory. Our three key insights are: First, inequity aversion plays a crucial role in the design of optimal …
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We show experimentally that fairness concerns may have a decisive impact on both the actual and the optimal choice of … contracts in a moral hazard context. Explicit incentive contracts that are optimal according to self-interest theory become … inferior when some agents value fairness. Conversely, implicit bonus contracts that are doomed to fail among purely selfish …
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The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
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a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family …
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skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between …
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