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Self-serving Bias in Redistribution Choices: Accounting for Beliefs and Norms

Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; van der Weele, Joel - 2023

People with higher-incomes tend to support less redistribution than lower-income people. This has been attributed not … underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … each of these mechanisms and compare their mediating roles in the relationship between status and redistribution. In our …

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Suspicious Success - Cheating, Inequality Acceptance, and Political Preferences

Klimm, Felix - 2018

Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...

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The Impact of Compulsory Arbitration on Bargaining Behavior: An Experimental Study

Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2005

A series of experiments compares bargaining behavior under three different settings: no arbitration, conventional and final offer arbitration. Under no arbitration disputes with zero payoffs were around 10%, while the pie was equally split in less than half of the cases. Under conventional...

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Ruled by Robots: Preference for Algorithmic Decision Makers and Perceptions of Their Choices

Chugunova, Marina; Luhan, Wolfgang - 2023

negatively to redistribution decisions that do not fit any fairness ideals. Our results suggest that even in the realm of moral … decisions are mainly driven by own material interests and fairness ideals. For the latter, players display remarkable …

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The Lifecycle of Affirmative Action Policies and Its Effect on Effort and Sabotage Behavior

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, … - 2023

A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...

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You Owe Me

Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus - 2017

In business and politics, gifts are often aimed at influencing the recipient at the expense of third parties. In an experimental study, which removes informational and incentive confounds, subjects strongly respond to small gifts even though they understand the gift giver's intention. Our...

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Motivated beliefs, social preferences, and limited liability in financial decision-making

Ahrens, Steffen; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril - 2022

Using a new experimental design, we compare how subjects form beliefs in an investor-client setup under varying degrees of liability. Our results reflect the importance of social preferences when making investment decisions for others. We show that when investors have no liability, those with...

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Social Preferences under the Shadow of the Future

Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone; Tripodi, Egon - 2023

paper provides a causal test of the importance of social preferences for cooperation, varying the composition of …

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Welfare-Based Altruism

Breitmoser, Yves; Vorjohann, Pauline - 2018

Why do people give when asked, but prefer not to be asked, and even take when possible? We show that standard behavioral axioms including separability, narrow bracketing, and scaling invariance predict these seemingly inconsistent observations. Specifically, these axioms imply that...

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Relative consumption preferences and public provision of private goods

König, Tobias; Lausen, Tobias - 2017

This paper shows that the public provision of private goods may be justified on pure efficiency grounds in an environment where individuals have relative consumption concerns. By providing private goods, governments directly intervene in the consumption structure, and thereby have an instrument...

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