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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?
Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - 2014
This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences - like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi-maximin, etc.; (ii) deal-responsiveness - reacting to...
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Guilt-averse or reciprocal? : looking at behavioural motivations in the trust game
Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016
For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation between back-transfers and second- order beliefs of the trustor: While reciprocity models predict a negative correlation, guilt-aversion models predict a positive one. This paper...
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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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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010 - This version: 15 June 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...
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658544
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Fairness and efficiency in a subjective claims problem
Gantner, Anita; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2013
information they process, and they are compared in terms of efficiency and perceived allocative and procedural fairness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194821
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Fair division in unanimity bargaining with subjective claims
Gantner, Anita; Horn, Kristian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2013
Offer and the Exit variant - in terms of fairness and efficiency. To assess the fairness of the allocations obtained by … elicited in a hypothetical fairness question, and we evaluate them from an impartial point of view using spectators' responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194818
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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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