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Yours, Mine, and Ours: The Effect of Ersatz Property Rights on Outcome Based Fairness and Reciprocity.
Oxoby, Robert J.; Spraggon, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
We report laboratory data on earned wealth effects in a series of anonymous dictator games. In addition to a standard (baseline) treatment in which wealth was determined by the experimenter, we conduct treatments in which either the dictator or the receiver earned wealth used in the subsequent...
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Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2024
We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine the health of hypothetical individuals...
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance
Heufer, Jan; Shachat, Jason M.; Xu, Yan - 2018
We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of … whether the wealth distribution choice exhibits equity or efficiency preferring tastes. We report experiments using a within …-subject design testing the veracity of this instrument. We find clusters of equity preferring, efficiency preferring, and socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928322
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Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?
Altmann, Steffen; Dohmen, Thomas J.; Wibral, Matthias - 2021
We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict that "fairer" players should trust less
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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence : A Large-Scale Experiment
Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141434
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Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options
Hennig‐Schmidt, Heike - 2013
We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978), we derive three different equity rules that can … explain 43% of all offers. Our within-subject design further allows us to show that proposers use different equity rules and …
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Born that way : beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one …'s genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … study highlights that individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in …
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Social preferences in private decisions
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - 2012
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin - 2011
test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. Complementary to our … health, and fairness of pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124489