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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
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 for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference …
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Social preferences in private decisions
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - 2012
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Rich meets poor : an international fairness experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008
Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in the world's poorest countries? To study this question and the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social preferences, we conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in...
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Moral property rights in bargaining with infeasible claims
Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2003
In many business transactions, in labor-management relations, in internationalconflicts, and welfare state reforms bargainers hold strong entitlements that are oftengenerated by claims that are not feasible any more. These entitlements seem to considerablyshape negotiation behavior. By using the...
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Dividing justly in bargaining problems with claims
Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2004
Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability of three classical solution concepts in a bankruptcy problem. We examine both people's impartial...
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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 ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...
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Aversion to health inequality : pure, income-related and income-caused
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2023
We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals. Identification comes from random variation in resource...
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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 generating performance inequality. In an incentivized...
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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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An axiomatic analysis of joint liability problems with rooted : tree structure
Oishi, Takayuki; Laan, Gerard van der; Brink, René van den - 2016
For joint liability problems concerning tort law, a legal compensation scheme may be based on lower and upper bounds of compensation for injury and on case-system consistency. Introducing several properties inspired from this observation, we analyze compensation schemes axiomatically under the...
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